LGBT historic places in the United States

The following is a list of LGBT historic places in the United States. It includes sites that are recognized at the federal, state, county, or municipal level as important to the history of the LGBT civil rights movement. They represent the achievements and struggles of the community and provide context to understand these events and people. The National Park Service is amid an effort to chronicle LGBT sites across the nation, and have identified almost 400 of interest.^[1]

Historic sites

Name	Image	City	State	Designation	Level of designation	Date first designated	Description	Ref
Carrington House	—	Cherry Grove	New York	NRHP	Federal	January 8, 2014	Oldest house in the gay town of Cherry Grove; where Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's	[1]
The Castro Camera and the Harvey Milk Residence	—	San Francisco	California	SFDL	Local	July 2, 2000	Home and studio of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to win an election. Lenient sentencing following his assassination in 1978 led to the White Night riots.	[1]
Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre	—	Cherry Grove	New York	NRHP	Federal	June 4, 2013	Oldest continually-operating gay summer theater	[1]
Henry Gerber House		Chicago	Illinois	CL NRHP NHL	Local	June 6, 2001	Apartment of Henry Gerber, who founded the first gay rights organization.	[1]
Dr. Franklin E. Kameny Residence		Washington	District of Columbia	NRHP	Federal	November 2, 2011	Home of gay rights activist Frank Kameny	[1]
James Merrill House		Stonington	Connecticut	NRHP NHL	Federal	August 28, 2013	Home of poet James Merrill and his partner David Noyes Jackson	[1]
Pauli Murray Family Home		Durham	North Carolina				National Historic Landmark candidate. Home of civil rights advocate Pauli Murray	[2]
Stonewall Inn		New York City	New York	NRHP NHL NM	Federal	June 28, 1999	Site of the Stonewall riots of 1969. First recognized National Historic Landmark and National Monument.	[1]

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