Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator, whose LGBTQ history of Brooklyn, When Brooklyn Was Queer, will be published in March 2019 by St. Martin’s Press. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Buzzfeed, the LA Review of Books, Out, and many other venues. He has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and is the recipient of the 2016–2017 Martin Duberman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, and a 2018 residency at The Watermill Center.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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?...
AIDS Without Its Metaphors
Dale Peck’s postmodern AIDS memoir revisits the gay early ’90s....
