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https://wamu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ap701013099_wide-cf459e3f5cdead25700044f689845d7160edc4ab.jpg18771056In his book The Women's House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the '60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.