Hugh Ryan

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

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This is one of the most surprising objects in our series. I had a great conversation with Hugh Ryan with top notch production by Elliot Lightfoot. Give it a listen!

I love hearing all the audio in such great quality! ❤️

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Really excited that this is out in the world now! Elliot and Roman were wonderful to work with on this episode and we managed to cover so much ground in just 45 minutes

I love Lizzie's book for many reasons, but particularly for the incredibly deft way she talks about the gender of someone who transitioned multiple times across the span of their life, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A real masterclass!

Per a database of discrimination complaints obtained by @propublica.org , Trump's Department of Education is actively ignoring reports of rape and assault on campuses so they can instead focus on transgender athletes. Their obsession with trans people is actively putting women and girls in danger.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

This morning I re-watched my video argument with the NY Times' Patrick Healy, and it's clear that the Times believes if it says explicity that the Trump regime is assaulting democracy, that would undermine its work to investigate how the regime is assaulting democracy. What an absurd position.

My latest! When LBJ’s right-hand man got arrested for bathroom cruising, the president could barely understand what that was. Then the story got even weirder. slate.com/life/2026/10...

I will be eternally grateful to have been born in a literate culture where literacy was valued and expected and I still had the time, attention, and freedom to develop a literacy practice. Understanding context, inference, vocabulary, perspective, affect — all powerful, useful skills and values.

OUTED is out! And you should check it out - and then join us on Friday at the Bureau!

Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.

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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

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...

🚨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...

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...

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...

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

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

🤡 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:

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.

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.

Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

More than a 1000 Israeli filmakers have signed a petition in support of the filmmakers, amid this mass, societal (and highly undemocratic) bullying www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I've been waiting for this book for so long!

They capitulated, they complied, and the result is that it just emboldens these people. The state representative immediately crowed and celebrated on social media. "We did it again!!… My X feed continues doing more oversight than all the rest of TxLege… combined!!" *ugh*

In the 1970s, the Canadian Gay Archives was approached by the Ontario Archives to take over some of the CGA's material. It was a moment of deep reflection. In the end, they chose to reject the offer out of fear that a homophobic government would decide to eliminate it, a la Nazi Germany.

Welcome to the Purge (queer history edition) dentonrc.com/education/hi...

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

The entire presidential television press pool — Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN — has agreed to suspend coverage in the wake of Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House

Trump's ban on MSNOW, CNN, and Politico is not only part of the autocratic playbook, but the timing is no coincidence. Trump is well in the autocratic backfire process, thus, entire media outlets he sees as threats must be banished. This is a moment of reckoning for America.

"[My son] said that if he had not received gender-affirming care, he would be dead. ... Parents are very angry, and scared."

In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...

Oh no I said the word "blame" too many times in a row and now it no longer feels like a word at all