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Hugh Ryan

Hugh Ryan
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator, and most recently, the author of The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, which won the Israel Fishman Stonewall Book Award from American Library Association. His first book, When Brooklyn Was Queer, won a 2020 New York City Book Award, was a New York Times Editors' Choice in 2019, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He was honored with the 2020 Allan Berube Prize from the American Historical Association.


Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

Hugh Ryan on Truth and Post-Truth in Creative Nonfiction
September 6, 2023  By Hugh Ryan
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Hugh Ryan on the Urgency of Prison Abolition

“Let’s tear down these monstrous warehouses of human misery.”
December 5, 2022  By Hugh Ryan
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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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