Podcast #151: Hugh Ryan on the Queer Histories of Brooklyn's Waterfront

By Tracy O'Neill, Social Media Curator
February 14, 2017
Queer Brooklyn

Hugh Ryan is a curator and journalist based in Brooklyn, whose work primarily explores queer culture and history. He is the Founder of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, and sits on the Board of QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking. As the Library’s Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2017, he has been researching the queer history of Brooklyn's working waterfront, in preparation for an upcoming exhibition at the Brooklyn Historical Society. For this week's episode of the New York Public Library Podcast, we're proud to present Ryan discussing the complicated queer refuges offered by the borough's waterfront spaces. 

The images below were included in Hugh Ryan's talk:

Masculine Men! Feminine Women!

Masculine Men! Feminine Women!

Mabel Hampton

Mabel Hampton

Harold Norse

Harold Norse

Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle

Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle