Its impossible to consider the history of the LGBTQ movement without thinking about New York City.

From the riots at Stonewall to sip-ins at Julius, the history of the queer movement is intimately intertwined with New Yorks.

A new project is helping document and connect some of the most significant locations for LGBTQ people across the citys five boroughs.

The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project is working to create a large-scale documentation of sites around the city that convey the communitys influence on American culture.

The New York Community Trust, an organization with a history of funding projects that advance and protect LGBTQ history, was the first private funder of the project.

The project has identified sites that date back hundreds of years to today that illustrate important moments in the struggle for LGBT civil rights, said Kerry McCarthy of the New York Community Trust. But also sites that shine a light on important aspects of our heritage and history as New Yorkers and Americans, given the incredible contributions that LGBT New Yorkers have made.

Most people conceptualize Stonewall as the birthplace of LGBT activism, but we really want to show people that there was LGBT lives and LGBT history and LGBT narrative in New York City that led up to Stonewall and contributed to that starting in the 17th century, Ken Lustbader of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project told HuffPost. Real activism in New York was taking place in the 1950s and 60s, predating Stonewall, and if it wasnt for those people already organizing, there would not have been a Stonewall.

Below, check out 11 of the places listed in the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, and head here to view the growing database of queer history in New York City.

Site descriptions have been republished with permission from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.

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