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.
On today's Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard's conversation is with Manona Rossol on lead exposure and its health problems. Monona Rossol is a chemist,...
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, Kathryn and Ross Petras, authors of the book “You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150...