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, the two co-directors of will join Leonard to talk about this new front in the battle for international...
Today, Leonard’s guest is Andrew Cockburn, of Harpers On The Policing Of America Andrew Cockburn writes the Letters From Washington column for Harper’s magazine....
On today's edition of Leonard Lopate at Large, in the first episode of the new year, Joshua and Staffan make their case on why...