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Meet The Queens Of Welfare Island Penitentiary, The Real Fairies, Pansies And Queers Incarcerated In The 1920’s & 30’s On What Is Now Roosevelt Island

According to the Making Gay History You Tube channel: … 167 acres of ruin. 167 acres of shame. This once housed the infirmed, insane, and corrupt. The island the city calls Welfare. For most of the 20th century, Welfare Island was known as the place New York put its undesirables…. … It’s just a little […]

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