But once he began to look for it, he discovered a rich past, from lesbian welders in the Navy Yard to queer culture in bathhouses and freak shows in Coney Island. In his epilogue, he recounts how he also once assumed that Brooklyn had no history of queer community to speak of before the new millennium, when people like he and I (that is, the children of suburbanization) began to move there. When Brooklyn Was Queer proceeds on the assumption that my mistake is widely shared. ![]() It is this error that Hugh Ryan’s new history attempts to correct. WHEN BROOKLYN WAS QUEER: A HISTORY by Hugh Ryan St.
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