Hugh Ryan

Freelance writer

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 [...]

Missing the Point

Originally published in The New York Post. 4/2/2009. Read the original (w/ comments) here.
FOR seven years, I read Missed Connections on Craigslist where would-be star-crossed lovers leave messages for those they’d been too shy to talk to. Living in a city as big as New York, I figured love could bump into me at any [...]

By Any Other Name

Originally published on Nerve.com, 4/2/2009. Read the original (w/ comments) here.
Every morning on my way in to work, Diamond passed judgment on me. She was tall and gorgeous, with long black hair, dark skin, and the best back-of-the-truck Louis Vuitton that Chinatown could fashion. Her breasts she’d also gotten on the cheap – hormones from [...]

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 [...]

Linday Lohan’s Fight for Marriage Equality

Originally published in The Advocate, 4/25/2009. Read the original (w/ comments) here.

Lindsay Lohan’s recently released faux eHarmony profile is perhaps the most brilliant 90 seconds in the young actor’s career. She simultaneously manages to poke fun at herself, her relationship with Sam Ronson, and eHarmony — a homophobic dating website that would never allow her to [...]

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