The New York City metropolitan area had an estimated 568,903 self-identifying GLB residents. Īs of 2005, New York City was home to an estimated 272,493 self-identifying gay and bisexual individuals. LGBT Americans in New York City constitute by significant margins the largest self-identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities in the United States, and the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village are widely considered to be the genesis of the modern gay rights movement. Brian Silverman, the author of Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day, wrote that New York City has 'one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful' LGBT communities', and 'Gay and lesbian culture is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, high-rises, and Broadway theater'. New York state, a state in the northeastern United States, has one of the largest and the most prominent LGBTQ populations in the world.
The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement and an icon of queer culture is adorned with rainbow pride flags.
