Description:

What happens when a community loses touch with its own history? Hugh Ryan joins Mattie and Kenyon for a thoughtful and often hilarious conversation about queer memory, resistance, and the ways history continues to shape LGBTQ+ life today. From the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History to his upcoming memoir, Hugh shares personal stories and big ideas about archives, identity, activism, and the changes he has witnessed across generations. He challenges the idea that the past can simply be recreated and explains why queer people must continue documenting, supporting, and preserving their own stories. The episode is both a history lesson and a reminder that change has happened before—and that queer communities have always found ways to create possibility.

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Historian

Curator

Writer

Episode Tags:

#QueerHistory #LGBTQIA+History #QueerArchives #TransHistory #QueerActivism #QueerCulture #LGBTQIA+Community #QueerMemoir #Pride #communityorganizing