Hugh Ryan

Freelance writer

You Can Buy Gaydar at the Apple Store

Written with Brian Joseph Ferree and originally published in Details‘ March 2010 issue. Read it online here.

Jared had just locked himself out of his Brooklyn apartment. As he stood on the street waiting for his landlord, he launched a new app on his iPhone. Minutes later, the blond-haired, blue-eyed grad student was pants-down in a [...]

A Floating Safari in Botswana

Originally published in The New York Times’ In Transit blog on 2/8/2010. Read the original here.
Ever since Katharine Hepburn declared “I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!,” African river boating has been a booming industry.

The Problem With Pro-Choice Men

Originally published on The Daily Beast on 2/5/2010. Read it in its entirety, with comments, here.
This weekend, Tim Tebow, the Florida Gators quarterback, will star in a contentious anti-abortion Super Bowl ad sponsored by the conservative Christian group, Focus on the Family. The ad comes just over a week after another man, Scott Roeder, was [...]

A Bus Tour of Gay Hollywood

Originally published in The New York Times on 2/2/2010. Read the original here.

Sure, everyone knows that West Hollywood is a gay-friendly neighborhood, with rainbow flags flying from restaurants and bars. But did you also know that the phrase “lipstick lesbian” originated at Peanuts, a “femme” bar on Santa Monica Boulevard? Or that there was [...]

I’m a Hustla

Originally published in The Advocate on 10/14/2009. Read the article in its entirety, with comments, here.
On October 11 the Hustlaball returned to New York, the city where it began. Now in its 12th year, the Hustlaball, according to its organizers, “brings the world of porn stars, hustlers, hookers, pimps, streetwalkers, flesh-peddlers, and other scandalous sorts [...]