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Hugh Ryan is a writer, historian, and curator based in Brooklyn. His latest book is The Women’s House of Detention.
Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.
Sarah Schulman’s history of ACT UP NY shows how AIDS activists forced the government to accept that they mattered.
Did the success of gay marriage erode the radical potential of queer politics?
Many LGBT Americans live in rural places. Their invisibility to the gay rights movement is a problem.
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