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THEY WERE A GAY, TERRACIAL UPLE AN AGE OF RELENTLS BIGOTRY. THE TWO HAROLDS DIDN’T FLCH.
The objects, curated lovgly by two llectors love for over five s, offer glimps of what was like to be black and gay Ameri when was dangero to be eher. The books are varied — works by gay rantr Quent Crisp amid Ja Evanovich of what’s left the Harolds' home don’t explicly bear their mark.
Patrick Johnson, chair of the Ain Amerin studi partment at Northwtern Universy, who terviewed Mays for his 2011 book “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South. ”“Sometim I stop and thk about all the turmoil of … beg black and gay Ameri, ” he said. ”Ernt Hopks, director of legislative affairs for the San Francis AIDS Foundatn and a neighbor of the Harolds, said gay men like them are rarer the District the days.
“There were any number of olr black gay men town available to get to know, ” he said. Black cultural practners explore the Black gay male physil and mental state through a variety of artistic cu and symbols at their disposal. Black gay male visual artists have worked to change how they are portrayed wh their muny and the general culture.