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Hugh Ryan

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Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan

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@hughryan.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:08 PM

Join us! This is going to be a fantastic conversation

@timothysw.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:36 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

I’m excited to talk about my new book OUTED in places pivotal to the story: New York, Washington, and Austin.

First up, bgsqd.bsky.social on 10/16 at 7PM in conversation w/ @hughryan.bsky.social!

#gayhistory #lgbtqhistory #queerhistory #lbj #lgbtqhistorymonth

Flyer for the book tour for *Outed: LBJ's Confidant and the Arrest That Transformed a Presidency* by Timothy Stewart-Winter. Three event panels:

New York: The Bureau (BGSQD), October 16, 2026, 7pm, at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W 13th St, Room 210. In conversation with Hugh Ryan, author of *When Brooklyn Was Queer*.

Washington, DC: Politics & Prose Wharf, January 13, 2027, 7pm. In conversation with Thomas Mallon, author of *Fellow Travelers*.

Austin: LBJ Presidential Library, February 2, 2027, 12pm. In conversation with Mark Atwood Lawrence, former LBJ Library director and coeditor of *LBJ's America*.

For details and more events, visit timsw.com/events.
@timothysw.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 2:10 AMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

NYC! I’m launching my new book OUTED at the Bureau bookstore (inside the LGBT Center at 208 W 13th St) on Friday, Oct. 16 at 7pm, in conversation with Hugh Ryan, author of When Brooklyn Was Queer and The Women’s House of Detention.
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Flyer for a book launch for OUTED by Timothy Stewart-Winter, Friday Oct 16 at 7pm at The Bureau, 208 W 13th St, Room 210, New York City. In conversation with Hugh Ryan. RSVP at bgsqd.com/events. Shows the book cover and two photos of the speakers.
@nancylevinestearns.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 1:39 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks.

www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...

thequeenzone.comNew ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking RisksA new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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@dan-sinnamon.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 1:49 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

jewishcurrents.orgWhat PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in PublishingMisleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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@mattbaume.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:39 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

Big queer history party in New York next week, hosted by the delightful @hughryan.bsky.social -- if you're in town you should go to this! And report back to me so I can fume with jealousy! www.eventbrite.com/e/october-la...

ad for a lavender literary society event, a 50th anniversary celebration of "gay american history" with jonathan ned katz
@hughryan.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 7:36 PM

Wish you could come!!

@hughryan.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 9:33 PM

D is a real one - give if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/hyw7j-help...

@elongreen.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 4:01 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

An essential book.

@hughryan.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 5:51 PM

💕💕💕 thank you friend!

@hughryan.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 3:57 PM

Love to see WHEN BROOKLYN WAS QUEER make the list! www.bkreader.com/arts-enterta...

@evilgalprods.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 5:51 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

FATALITY

A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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@atrupar.comSep 29, 2026, 3:07 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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@unionnick.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 11:31 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

@sethcotlar.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 6:05 AMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”

@chanda.blacksky.appSep 25, 2026, 6:04 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

Global politics's hottest new gay couple (polycule??) just debuted

@hughryan.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 9:41 PM

Awwww THANK YOU

@rbreich.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 6:30 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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@woolybearg.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 10:45 PMReposted by @hughryan.bsky.social

Finished up and highly recommend.

@hughryan.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 1:39 AM

❤️❤️ thank you!

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