New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing on Tuesday on whether to give landmark status to six sites important to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-people movement. Margaret Herman, an architectural historian at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, said at the hearing that the agency was studying the sites “to build on the designation of the Stonewall Inn.” That gay club and bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village was given landmark status in 2015. The 1969 riots at Stonewall were critical events in...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 04, 2019 22:30 UTC