“When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History” – Author Hugh Ryan in conversation with Carl Raymond
Bowery Boys Talks at the Montauk Club presented by Bowery Boys Walks
Brooklyn’s queer history has long lived in the shadows alongside the more well-known enclaves such as Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and Harlem. Now, for the first time, author and curator, Hugh Ryan, takes us into the history of Brooklyn to understand its story as a haven for the LGBTQ community with its own chapters of revolution and resilience.
In this talk, Carl Raymond, host of The Gilded Gentleman history podcast will discuss aspects of queer Brooklyn and the importance of Brooklyn in LGBTQ history based on Ryan’s book When Brooklyn Was Queer published in 2019. The New York Times has called When Brooklyn Was Queer “…an entertaining and insightful chronicle.”
Thursday, June 26th at 7 pm
Montauk Club in Brooklyn
A book signing will follow the talk.
This talk will take place at the historic and beautiful Montauk Club, a Gilded Age gem established as a private club in 1889.
The interview will include a discussion of:
- The world of Walt Whitman in the 1850’s
Stories of the queen women who worked in the Brooklyn Navy shipyards in WWII - The world of the drag kings Ella Wesner and Florence Hines in the late 1880s
- How Brooklyn’s queer community nurtured writers such as Hart Crane and John DosPoasos
- The queer world of Coney Island in the 1920’s
- And much more
Rates
$30 per person
Duration
Talk: Approximately 75 minutes, including a Q&A (Doors open at 6:30 pm, talk starts at 7 pm)
Please note: The Montauk Club is a private club and only members can purchase food or drink at the bar upstairs.
Location
Venue: Montauk Club, 25 8th Ave, Brooklyn
The Author and Interviewer:
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. He is the Founder of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, and sits on the Boards of QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking, and the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Buzzfeed, the LA Review of Books, Out, and many other venues. The author of When Brooklyn Was Queer, he is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Martin Duberman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, and a 2018 residency at The Watermill Center.
Carl Raymond is the host of The Gilded Gentleman history podcast.
Listen to Hugh Ryan on The Gilded Gentleman History Podcast.