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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. By fn, queer uld mean strange or peculiar, though folks the Uned Stat were startg to e “queer” to mean gay by the early 20th century.
They poted out that homosexualy was accepted other cultur and me unr fire for sayg , even om other anthropologists. Edward Sapir was another famo Boas stunt (and another ex-lover of Mead’s), and he argued that gay sex was not jt unnatural but pathologil. ” Locke was gay but the closet, and he and Hugh entered to a rrponnce that culmated Locke showg up at Hugh’s flat Paris.