After Bad Gays
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
If Bad Gays taught you to love queer history's villains, Hugh Ryan's excavation of New York's notorious women's prison delivers the same irreverent autopsy—messy survival, institutional violence, and queer women who manipulated and defied a system built to erase them. No sanitized memorials, just cunning over victimhood and complicity over saints.