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 erasure of its queer history-a great forgetting.
No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Hugh Ryan’s 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 queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. History » Exploring the LGBT History of Brooklyn Exploring the LGBT History of Brooklyn Posted on Maby Hugh Ryan
