It becomes a hangout for notable lesbians, including Katherine Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Irwin.ġ925–1926: Down the street, Polish émigré Eva Kotchever runs a speakeasy out of a West Village townhouse known as Eve’s Hangout (129 MacDougal St.), where “men are admitted, but not welcome.” She is arrested in 1926 when an undercover female police officer finds out she’s writing an “obscene” short-story collection called Lesbian Love. 710 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in Harlem.ġ912-1919: Members of Heterodoxy, a feminist club “for unorthodox women,” meet regularly at Polly’s (137 MacDougal St.), a restaurant run by anarchist Polly Holladay. “Faggots Ball,” debuts at the Hamilton Lodge No. 155th St.) host elaborate drag balls, igniting a brief “pansy craze.” The annual Masquerade and Civic Ball, a.k.a. 11th St.) and the long-gone Rockland Palace (280 W. It’s dubbed the “wickedest place in New York” by local press.ġ890s–1930s: Webster Hall (125 E.
McDarrah/Getty Imagesġ890: So-called fairies turn tricks at the Slide (157 Bleecker St.), one of the city’s earliest gathering spots for gay men.
