Explore our curated collection: Gay-Owned Businesses, highlighting sites associated with (mostly former) businesses run by LGBT people in New York City. LGBT entrepreneurs created welcoming spaces for their communities by opening bars, clubs, restaurants, bathhouses, self-defense centers, and bookshops.⁠ ⁠ More from www.nyclgbtsites.org: 1️⃣ & 2️⃣ Craig Rodwell (third from left), owner of Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, with his staff outside 15 Christopher Street, the store’s second location, June 1983 (cropped). Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Craig Rodwell Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. 3️⃣ F.W.I.L. Lundy Brothers Restaurant at 1901-1929 Emmons Avenue, Brooklyn, one of the most beloved and famous restaurants in New York City from the 1930s to the 1970s. The restaurant was owned and operated by gay proprietor Frederick William Irving Lundy. 4️⃣ Named after pioneering lesbian fiction author Djuna Barnes, Djuna Books was a feminist bookstore at 154 West 10th Street in Greenwich Village from 1977 to 1982. The store, part of a wave of women-owned bookstores that catered to lesbians in the 1970s and 1980, carried non-racist and non-sexist books by women’s and lesbian’s presses and authors. Learn more at nyclgbtsites.org (via link in bio). #nyclgbtsites