Hugh Ryan

Freelance writer

We Are (From) Everywhere

Originally published on Advocate.com on 8/25/2009. You can read the original, with comments, here.
At 28, Nathan Manske might be a poster child for fun employment. Tan, attractive, articulate, and recently laid off by a large advertising firm, Manske has spent the last six months channeling all of his energies into creating and maintaining the website [...]

Pixelated Pride

Published in The Advocate, 6/10/2009. Read the original (w/ comments) here.
When most people think about online video games, they think of teenage boys and Angelina Jolie dressed as Lara Croft from Tomb Raider. But a growing number of LGBT adults are taking to the (virtual) streets, carving out a home for themselves in what are [...]

Three Questions for a Teacher and a Father

This profile, done through the StoryCorps project, followed a young man named Nick as he traced the history of his name, discovered his biological father was not the man he thought, and confronted his birth father. It was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. It aired on June 29, 2007. Listen to it here.