about the author

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 Los Angeles Review of Books, Out, and many other venues. Ryan is the recipient of the 2015–2016 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. You can sign up for email updates here.