'The House of D 500 feet from the Stonewall Inn,' Ryan says. In his new book, The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, Ryan writes about the prison, and about the role it played in the gay rights movement of the '60s, including the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. 'All of these things could have gotten you arrested if you were perceived as the 'wrong kind of woman.'' 'Drunkenness, waywardism, disobedience to their parents, being out at night by themselves, wearing pants, accepting a date from a man, accepting a ride from a man,' Ryan says. Author Hugh Ryan says that in many cases, the prisoners were charged with crimes related to gender-nonconforming behavior. In New York City, in the 20th century, tens of thousands of women and transmasculine people were incarcerated at the so-called House of D, a brutal women's prison that opened in Greenwich Village in 1932.
