{"id":12300,"date":"2019-06-02T22:17:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T02:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12300"},"modified":"2019-06-03T05:46:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:46:07","slug":"episode-323-hugh-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-323-hugh-ryan","title":{"rendered":"Episode 323 – Hugh Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 323:
\nHugh Ryan<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I come to these stories in part because I’m trying to find myself.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Let’s celebrate Pride Month with a conversation with Hugh Ryan<\/a>, author of When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History<\/a>\"\"! We talk about Brooklyn’s untold queer history and how it reflects the story of Brooklyn itself, the challenge of relating 19th century views of sexuality’s spectrum to a modern audience, and why his history began with Walt Whitman and ended a few years before Stonewall. We also get into the toughest part of his research, the best story that didn’t make it into the book, the commercial challenge of pitching a popular queer history, the accidental scoops he made by being the first person to explore this history, and how he wrote such long hours he broke his wrist. Oh, yeah, and he cringes over Naomi Wolf’s demolition<\/a> and we share a laugh over his great story of the Coney Island impresario who threw a male beauty pageant in 1929 but had no idea what was in store. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“One of the things I learned was how intimately connected queer history is with the history of prisons and policing in America.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n