Mayday Book Club: "When Brooklyn Was Queer" by Hugh Ryan
đź“š Join us next Sunday, August 28th from 12-3PM for sharing a meal and discussing When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
đź–¤ We are very excited to announce we will be joined by the author Hugh Ryan for this book club discussion đź–¤
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 erasure of its queer history―a great forgetting
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