bigreader’s Reviews > The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison > Status Update

“And the House of D, more than perhaps any other prison, had an outsized role in queer life. It sat at the end of Christopher St, the block whose very name is a global byword for queerness. You could see the Stonewall Inn from the prison’s high, small windows, and during the Stonewall Uprising, those on the inside held a riot all their own, setting fire to their belongings and tossing them out the windows…”