Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Hugh Ryan discusses a largely untold history.
Hugh Ryan’s “When Brooklyn Was Queer” is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond.
Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history―a great forgetting.
Today, on Leonard Lopate At Large, Professor Edward J. Watts: Mortal Republic “Readers will find many parallels to today’s fraught political environment,” reads the...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard celebrates the first day of spring by opening the phones for gardening expert Pete Muroski to take...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner discuss the personal and political backstory of Vice President Mike Pence. Little-known outside...