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Hugh Ryan
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator. His first book, When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019), won a New York City Book Award, was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, and is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award. Honored with the 2020 Allan Berube Prize from the American Historical Association, he is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in Brooklyn. @Hugh_Ryan


At the Women’s House of Detention, the Intersecting Influences of Black and Gay Liberation Movements

Hugh Ryan on How Afeni Shakur's Incarceration Changed Her Political Thinking
May 12, 2022  By Hugh Ryan
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The Deliverance of Douglas A. Martin’s Obsessive Desire

Hugh Ryan on Outline of My Lover
June 3, 2020  By Hugh Ryan
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Brooklyn’s Earliest, Secret Enclaves of Queer Life

From Whitman to the Free Black Community of Weeksville
March 13, 2019  By Hugh Ryan
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