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Hugh Ryan's Queer Histories of Brooklyn’s Working Waterfront

Wanna hear what I've been up to for the last year? Join me while I discuss my research as the NYPL's 2016-2017 Martin Duberman Scholar! Since the coining of the word “homosexual” in the late 1800s, up until the decline of the city’s light industry post-WWII, the Brooklyn waterfront has served as a complicated refuge for working class queer people, providing economic opportunity, inexpensive housing, social privacy, and sexual possibility – as well as police surveillance, racist exclusio...

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New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd St
New York, NY

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