Julius is a tavern in the New York City Greenwich Village neighborhood that is the oldest continuously operating Gay bar in New York and played an important roll in the events leading up to the Stonewall riots. An event at the bar at 159 West 10th Street in 1966 which is a block northeast of the Stonewall Inn established the right of homosexuals to gather at bars clearing the way for the opening of the Stonewall which in turn led to the 1969 riots. Newspaper articles on the wall indicate it was favorite bar for Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Rudolf Nureyev.