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- When Brooklyn was queer / by Ryan, Hugh,1978-author.(CARDINAL)794684;
"The groundbreaking, never-before-told story of Brooklyn's vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day. When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic errasure of its queer hsitory--a great forgetting. Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time, and show how the formation of Brooklyn is inextricably linked to the stories of the incredible people who created the Brooklyn we know today. Folks like Ella Wesner and Florence Hines, the most famous drag kings of the late-1800s; E. Trondle, a transgender man whose arrest in Brooklyn captured headlines for weeks in 1913; Hamilton Easter Field, whose art commune in Brooklyn Heights nurtured Hart Crane and John Dos Passos; Mabel Hampton, a black lesbian who worked as a dancer at Coney Island in the 1920s; Gustave Beekman, the Brooklyn brothel owner at the center of a WWII gay Nazi spy scandal; and Josiah Marvel, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum who helped create a first-of-its-kind treatment program for gay men arrested for public sex in the 1950s. Through their stories, WBWQ brings Brooklyn's queer past to life"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and index.From Leaves of grass to the Brooklyn Bridge: the rise of the queer waterfront, 1855-1883 -- Becoming visible, 1883-1910 -- Criminal perverts, 1910-1920 -- A growing world, 1920-1930 -- "The beginning of the end," 1930-1940 -- Brooklyn at war, 1940-1945 -- The great erasure, 1945-1969.- Subjects: Sexual minorities; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.;
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- The women's house of detention : a queer history of a forgotten prison / by Ryan, Hugh,1978-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.The pre-history of the Women's House of Detention (1796-1928) -- Psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers-the prison's -- Eyes, ears, and record keepers -- Where the girls are: Greenwich Village & lesbian life -- Firing Rosie the Riveter -- The long tail of the drug war -- Flickers of pride -- Conformity & resistance -- The gay crowds -- Queer women get organized -- The city's search for the perfect victim -- Gay lib and Black power."The Women's House of Detention, Greenwich Village's most forbidding and forgotten queer landmark, stood from 1929 to 1974, imprisoning tens of thousands from all over New York City. The little-known stories of the queer women and trans-masculine people incarcerated in this building present a uniquely queer argument for prison abolition. The "House of D" acted as a nexus, drawing queer women down to Greenwich Village from every corner of the city. Some of these women-Angela Davis, Grace Paley, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur-were famous, but the majority were working-class people, incarcerated for the "crimes" of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of people in women's prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, the percentage was almost certainly higher. Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis of queer and trans incarceration, connecting misogyny, racism, state-sanctioned sexual violence, colonialism, sex work, and the failures of prison reform. At the same time, The Women's House of Detention highlights how queer relation and autonomy emerged in the most dire of circumstances: from the lesbian relationships and communities forged through the House of D, to a Black socialist's fight for a college education during the Great Depression, to the forgotten women who rioted inside the prison on the first night of the Stonewall Uprising nearby. This is the story of one building and so much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired"--- Subjects: Women's House of Detention.; Reformatories for women; Women prisoners; Transgender prisoners; Poor women; Prison abolition movements;
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