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His research became the new height When Brooklyn Was Queer. Though with the companion creation of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, the master builder unintentionally fathered a whole new cruising ground. While the lives of gay gay men in Brooklyn are the most historically documented, Ryan makes a particular effort to include women and gender-nonconforming people.

He ends the book right before Stonewall, that natural line of demarcation for queer life in America. Here, some of the mileposts Ryan resurrected. Fulton Ferry Landing Walt Whitman kept a ledger of his waterfront encounters that goes on for over 15 pages. Clarke Street Station The only entrance brooklyn this stop is at the front of the St.

Hotel St. Later, the bar at the hotel was used for the infamous scene in The Godfather that totem of heterosexuality! Their relationship collapsed when they went to see Christopher Isherwood and W. Auden give a reading and Isherwood invited them over. Kallman went alone, and he and Auden became lifelong collaborators. Police and naval intelligence raided it inand rumors soon surfaced that Nazi spies hung out there, as well as a U.

The Starlite Lounge From until it closed in earlythe Starlite was the oldest gay bar in Brooklyn and the most welcoming for black gay clientele. Prospect Park The Vale of Cashmere, which many know and love today, first became a cruising ground in the s. A bar destroyed the Washington Baths inbut by that time, Robert Moses had largely succeeded in sanitizing the place.

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