Hugh Ryan
Hugh Ryan | |
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| Subject | LGBTQ history of New York City |
| Notable awards | Stonewall Book Award (2023) |
| Website | hughryan |
Hugh Ryan is an American historian and non-fiction writer focusing on the LGBTQ history of New York City. He wrote The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison and When Brooklyn Was Queer.
Education
[edit]Ryan attended Cornell University and received an MFA degree from Bennington College.[1]
Career
[edit]When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) focuses on the LGBTQ history of Brooklyn's waterfront. The book was a 2019 New York Times Editor's Choice[2] and one of Harper's Bazaar's Best LGBTQ books of 2019.[3] It was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction.[4] In 2024, it was announced that Elliot Page would be an executive producer for a virtual reality-based series adapting the book, directed by Yasmin Elayat and written by Agnes Borinsky.[5]
The Women's House of Detention (2022) focuses on the queer women and transmasculine people who were systematically imprisoned in the New York Women's House of Detention.[6] The book won the American Library Association's 2023 Stonewall Book Award for Non-fiction[7] and Publishers Weekly called it "a vital contribution to LGBTQ history."[8] Kirkus Reviews called it a "blistering critique of the country’s ‘criminal legal system’.”[9]
In 2026, he released a memoir in essays entitled My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond.[10][11]
He teaches nonfiction writing at Bennington College.[1][12] He is a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.[13]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Goodman, Elyssa (June 15, 2026). "Read the Room: Hugh Ryan's 'My Bad' Revisits a Life of Gloriously Queer '90s Chaos and Empowerment". V Magazine. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
- ↑ Crain, Caleb (April 20, 2019). "'When Brooklyn Was Queer' Evokes the Borough's Hidden History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ↑ Weiss, Keely (October 11, 2019). "Celebrate National Coming Out Day with the Best LGBTQ Books of 2019". Harper's BAZAAR. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ↑ Hart, Michelle (March 10, 2020). "Here are the Finalists For the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards". Oprah Daily. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ↑ Ramachandran, Naman (March 20, 2024). "Elliot Page Boards New Canvas VR Adaptation of Hugh Ryan's 'When Brooklyn Was Queer' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
- ↑ "The Women's House of Detention". Library Journal. February 1, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ↑ "Queer Author Talk: Hugh Ryan with Jennifer Love Williams on The Women's House of Detention". Brooklyn Public Library. February 1, 2023. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ↑ "The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan". Publishers Weekly. February 2, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ↑ "THE WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION". Kirkus Reviews. February 28, 2022.
- ↑ Tea, Michelle (June 25, 2026). "The '90s transformed queer life. Hugh Ryan looks back with humor, heartbreak and clarity". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
- ↑ "Hugh Ryan's Book Notes music book for his book My Bad". Largehearted Boy. May 25, 2026. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
- ↑ Ryan, Hugh; Radclyffe, Oliver (October 27, 2024). "Alignment, Not Transition". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
- ↑ "Hugh Ryan". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
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