How the Erie Canal Created Queer Life in Brooklyn (Virtual)
How the Erie Canal Created Queer Life in Brooklyn (Virtual)
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Erie Canal transformed life across America in exciting and unforeseeable ways, and we are still living with the reverberations of those developments. Come hear historian Hugh Ryan (author of When Brooklyn Was Queer) discuss how 339 miles of canal turned Brooklyn from a collection of sleepy hamlets out on Long Island into an urban mecca for LGBTQ+ life. This is a virtual event.
Erie Canal Museum
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM on Wed, 15 Jan 2025
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd East
Syracuse,
New York
13202
315-471-0593
contactus@eriecanalmuseum.org