A review by tordoffgrace
When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History by Hugh Ryan

5.0

A wonderful look into the queer history of one of New York’s most famous neighborhoods. Ryan does a great job of painting a broad picture of how larger-scale events (laws, scientific consensus, wars, etc) impacted the queer community, while also highlighting individual queer voices, love stories, and other entanglements that makes it feel so personal. I love media that humanizes smaller voices of the past, as I feel that’s something that is easily lost in the greater picture of history, and what history gets told to us in the first place. It makes me want to read more queer history, especially looking at how the world is today.