Hugh Ryan is an award-winning historian, curator, and writer. He is the author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019), which is currently being developed as a series by Elliot Page. He teaches nonfiction writing in the MFA program at Bennington College.
Hugh Ryan
Articles
Alignment, Not Transition
Hugh Ryan interviews Oliver Radclyffe about gender, late-in-life transition, and Radclyffe’s memoir, “Frighten the Horses.”
Breaking and Remaking the Trans Memoir: On Cecilia Gentili’s “Faltas”
Hugh Ryan reviews Cecilia Gentili’s searing new memoir, “Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist.”
Sacred Places: Hugh Ryan Interviews Lance Richardson
Hugh Ryan talks to Lance Richardson about his new biography, "House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row."
The Apocalypse of Adulthood
What happens when a '90s archetype grows up? Hugh Ryan reads "Black Wave" by Michelle Tea to find out.
My Year of Sarah Schulman
It would be easy to enjoy "The Cosmopolitans" even if you had never heard the name Sarah Schulman before.
Mapping the Family Possible
If same-sex marriage is the first step on this journey, where are we headed, and how do we go the rest of the way?
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