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Sea Colony
Eighth Avenue (Greenwich Village) · West Village, Manhattan40.7388° N / 74.0021° W
Overview
Pre-Stonewall working-class lesbian bar, remembered in oral histories of 1960s queer New York.
The Sea Colony was a pre-Stonewall, working-class lesbian bar in Greenwich Village, remembered in oral histories for a heavily policed, Mafia-run environment typical of queer bars of its era. It survives mostly through first-person accounts; its exact address and dates are not well fixed.
Oral histories & archival media
Archive plates
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FlyerPL.01
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DocumentPL.03
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Placeholder plates — cleared scans drop in here
Sonic profile
mixed
Cultural role
pre-Stonewall queer lifeworking-class lesbian space
Tags
#lesbianbar#pre-Stonewall#1960s#GreenwichVillage