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His latest book, The Women\u2019s House of Detention<\/em>, delves into a notorious 20th-century prison in Greenwich Village<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Linda Copman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1933, an 18-year-old named Charlotte was arrested in Manhattan and charged with being a \u201cwayward minor\u201d and chronic runaway. She\u2019d spent the past three years hitchhiking across the country\u2014and, most damningly in the eyes of the authorities, had persuaded other girls to hit the road with her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So she was sent to the Women\u2019s House of Detention, a massive prison in Greenwich Village that had opened two years earlier. Shortly after arriving at the 11-story, Art Deco-style facility\u2014nicknamed the House of D\u2014Charlotte fell in love with another inmate, and the pair tried unsuccessfully to escape using a rope made from bedsheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlotte spent the next several years coming to terms with her sexuality. As she ultimately observed: \u201cI guess I tried to push something aside that can\u2019t be pushed aside.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historian Hugh Ryan \u201900<\/a> chronicles Charlotte\u2019s story, along with those of other prisoners, in his recent book The Women\u2019s House of Detention<\/em><\/a>, which explores how the House of D influenced Village culture and contributed to its status as a queer mecca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among his sources were the files of social workers who interacted with Charlotte and her fellow inmates. \u201cThrough their files, we can see how the lives of these women were changed by the prison,\u201d he writes, \u201cand how these women in turn changed life in Greenwich Village.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Based in NYC, Ryan focuses his work on LGBTQ+ topics. His first book, 2019\u2019s When Brooklyn Was Queer<\/em><\/a>\u2014which Publishers Weekly<\/em> praised as an \u201cevocative and nostalgic love song to the borough\u201d\u2014documented what Ryan, himself a gay man, calls an important aspect of the city\u2019s past that had largely gone unacknowledged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor so long, historical work has been written about us, or by us, but not for <\/em>us,\u201d he observes. \u201cI want us to have ancestors, and to love them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, Ryan founded the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History<\/a>, which works with local groups to curate shows highlighting their communities\u2019 stories and culture. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI wondered what it would be like for us to be in charge,\u201d Ryan says of his motivation, \u201cin a queer museum, built by queer people, with exhibits on queer topics, in a queer space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ryan\u2019s view, such projects can have vital impact\u2014and historical tales can resonate powerfully today. He points to the recent spate of state laws directed at trans people as evidence of the urgent need to bring LGBTQ+ stories to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For so long, historical work has been written about us, or by us, but not for <\/em>us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLegal attacks combined with dehumanizing rhetoric are the tools of fascism and genocide,\u201d he says. \u201cWe need to protect the needs of the most vulnerable people in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A women\u2019s studies major on the Hill, Ryan helped launch Direct Action to Stop Homophobia<\/a> (DASH), a campus organization that advocated for LGBTQ+ rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Active off and on from 1999 to 2006, DASH focused on political organizing and protests in collaboration with other student activist groups. After graduation, he spent two years as the manager of Cornell\u2019s LGBT Resource Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pop-Up Museum events have included 2012’s Degrees of Separation: A Queer Oral Herstory (As Told by Separatist Puppets)<\/em> in NYC. (Photo provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ryan is currently at work on his next book, a history of NYC\u2019s Lower East Side as a hub for artistic, social, and political experimentation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also teaches writing, collaborates with the city\u2019s Department of Education to produce LGBTQ+ curricular content, and serves on the board of advisers for the archives of the LGBT Center in Manhattan and the Stonewall National Museum & Archives in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lessons from a bygone landmark<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In The Women\u2019s House of Detention<\/em>, Ryan delves into both the Village\u2019s LGBTQ+ history and the roots of the modern carcel state, which disproportionally impacts those who are economically disadvantaged, queer, and\/or from communities of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As he observed in a May 2022 interview on NPR\u2019s Fresh Air<\/em><\/a>, the House of D was located just 500 feet from the Stonewall Inn, the bar where a 1969 uprising launched the modern gay rights movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the first night of the riots, people incarcerated in the prison could actually see what was happening out their windows,\u201d he told host Terry Gross. \u201cAnd they started a riot all their own, setting fire to their belongings and throwing them down to the streets below while chanting, \u2018Gay rights! Gay rights! Gay rights!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one knows for sure how many queer prisoners were held at the House of D, which operated from 1931 to 1972.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ryan refers to modern-day statistics to build a strong case that many inmates were queer or transmasculine, noting that about 40% of people in women\u2019s prisons and in youth detention for girls identify as LBTQ+. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a crisis of incarceration we almost never discuss,\u201d Ryan says, \u201cand it\u2019s horrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inmates in the House of D served time for a variety of crimes and transgressions, real or imagined\u2014from smoking, wearing pants, and disobeying their parents to prostitution, larceny, attempted suicide, and drug addiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan approaches his subjects with empathy, trying to imagine what their lives were like during such a homophobic era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A performance piece honoring the life of a famed Coney Island “bearded lady” was part of a Pop-Up Museum installation in Brooklyn in 2013. (Photo provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRyan\u2019s narrative is part history, part horror story, and part blistering critique of the country\u2019s \u2018criminal legal system\u2019 (a term he sees as more accurate than \u2018criminal justice system\u2019),\u201d Kirkus<\/em> says in a review, adding: \u201cWhile his narrative has strong LGBTQ+ interest, it also belongs on the shelf with books about judicial-system failures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Ryan observes in his epilogue, the Village and its queer culture had been well studied before he began his research\u2014so he could have wrongly assumed that there were few new tales to be told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we refract all of queer American history through a single bar [Stonewall], which mostly catered to white cis men, it\u2019s not surprising that the stories of queer women, trans men, and people of color get lost, glossed over, and ignored,\u201d Ryan writes. \u201cFor my entire life, I have been trying to see clearer, to listen closer, to let go of what I know so I can learn what I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top image: Photo by M. Sharkey<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published July 12, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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