Hugh Ryan is an American historian and non-fiction writer focusing on the LGBT history of New York City.
The Women's House of Detention focuses on the queer women and transmasculine people who were systematically imprisoned in the New York City institution.
[1] The book won the American Library Association's 2023 Stonewall Book Award for nonfiction[2] and Publishers Weekly called it "a vital contribution to LGBTQ history.
"[3] Kirkus Reviews called it a "blistering critique of the country’s ‘criminal legal system’.”[4] When Brooklyn Was Queer focuses on the LGBT history of the borough's waterfront.
[6] It was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction.