GROSS: I would ike to reintroduce your right here. Whenever you are simply joining united states, my guest was Hugh Ryan, author of the book “The Ladies Household From Detention: A Queer Reputation for A forgotten Prison.” We’ll be back. This is exactly Outdoors.

GROSS: This might be Fresh air. Why don’t we get back to my interview having Hugh Ryan, author of the fresh new book “New Ladies Household Out of Detention: A Queer Reputation for A destroyed Jail.” It will be the history of a women’s jail you to exposed during the 1932 during the Greenwich Town, closed in 1972 and is actually torn down when you look at the ’74. It had an excellent disproportionate amount of lesbian females and you can transmasculine guys.

Let us explore Afeni Shakur, who was simply one of several ladies incarcerated at home regarding D within the final days. And you can she actually is the caretaker away from Tupac Shakur, and you may she try expecting that have him while she was incarcerated, correct?

Newton, the leader in the latest Black Panther Cluster which famously authored an effective letter saying that the latest Black colored Panther Party’s second front is hooking up having women’s liberation and you may gay liberation

RYAN: Yeah. She gets arrested within what is actually called the Panther 21, which is which police conspiracy the Black Panthers was indeed intending to pay right up loads of targets throughout New york Area. She actually is one of two lady detained. The other a person is titled Joan Bird. (more…)