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GAY REBEL OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Ntaed wrgs that were provotive and discsed issu such as homosexualy and prostutn. In Google search, her name would appear alongsi other renowned gay or bisexual wrers like Jam Baldw, Alae Locke, and Lorrae Hansberry. Most of Hurston’s iends were homosexual men.
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” Locke was gay but the closet, and he and Hugh entered to a rrponnce that culmated Locke showg up at Hugh’s flat Paris. Ain Amerin lerary cric and profsor Henry Louis Gat once reflected that the Harlem Renaissance was “surely as gay as was Black, not that was exclively eher of the. Some wrers of the perd clud homoerotic them—or, rarely, discsns of same-sex romantic relatnships— their work.