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Hugh Ryan

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Who's Afraid of Social Contagion?

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

by Hugh Ryan via Boston Review on July 31, 2023
Liberating the Archives: Hugh Ryan’s “Women’s House of Detention”

An interview on the queer history of a forgotten prison.

by Hugh Ryan, Eric Newman via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 16, 2022
The Incredible True Adventure of Five Gay Activists in Search of the Black Panther Party

Communes, free love, coming out, getting arrested, consciousness-raising rap sessions, gun shooting, acid dropping, and trying to be macrobiotic at McDonald’s.

by Hugh Ryan via Harper's Bazaar on June 8, 2021
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How Eugenics Gave Rise To Modern Homophobia

The roots of anti-gay attitudes lay in white supremacy.

by Hugh Ryan via Made by History on May 28, 2019
LGB and/or T History

“Transgender” has gone from an umbrella term for different behaviors, to an umbrella term for different identities.

by Hugh Ryan via Digital Transgender Archive

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

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A rainbow over a waterscape.

Queer History Detective: On the Power of Uncovering Stories from the Past

With more queer history detectives, what could our future look like?

by Amelia Possanza via Literary Hub on May 30, 2023

Gov. Ron DeSantis shows an image from the children's book "Call Me Max" by transgender author Kyle Lukoff before signing the Parental Rights in Education bill in Shady Hills, Fla. on March 28.

How Anita Bryant Helped Spawn Florida's LGBTQ Culture War

Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, is part of a long legacy of anti-gay rhetoric and legislation in the state.

by Jillian Eugenios via NBC News on April 13, 2022

A Brief Criminal History of the Mask

How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since.

by Melissa Gira Grant via The New Republic on April 21, 2020

The Great Unsolved Mystery of Missing Marjorie West

Even before mass media coverage of child abductions, American parents had reason to fear the worst if their child went missing.

by Caren Lissner via Narratively on May 5, 2018

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