[1] Located near Cooper Union, the Hall was owned by the gangster James T.

[3] June wrote that the term paresis was used as a general term for insanity, but also wrote that the name followed a superstition that androgynes could cause virile men to succumb to insanity, later discovered to be a side effect of advanced syphilis.

[1] One space above the bar was permanently rented by the Cercle Hermaphroditos, an early transgender advocacy organization.

[4] According to historian Susan Stryker, the Cercle Hermaphroditos was the first group in the United States to be concerned with what today would be considered transgender social justice issues.

[5] Paresis Hall was particularly renowned and reviled even at the time, and was a common target for both police activity and religious protests.