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For five years Hugh Ryan has been huntg queer ghosts through the streets of Brooklyn, amid the racks of New York’s public librari, among s urt rerds and yellow newspaper clippgs to build a picture of their lost rult is When Brooklyn Was Queer, a funny, tenr and disturbg history of LGBT life that starts an era, the 1850s, when those letters meant nothg and ends before the Stonewall rts started the morn era of gay book grew out of Ryan’s other project, The Pop-Up Mm of Queer History, a sort-of travellg mm that creat stallatns celebratg the histori of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr and his iends had done shows about lol queer history other ci but never Brooklyn, where many of them lived.

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”One recurrg theme his rearch that fascated Ryan was how Brooklyn’s rise om ral backwater to New York’s send cy mirrored the rise tert sex and genr studi and – sadly – the rise homophobia, bigotry and abe.

Constctn on the Brooklyn Bridge started 1869, the same year that human rights mpaigner and journalist Karl-Maria Kertbeny first ed the terms homosexual and heterosexual.