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- FROM HARLEM TO ITALY, SOUNDS OF GAY SUBVERSN
- FATS WALLER - DON'T LET IT BOTHER YOU (OM THE RKO PICTURE "THE GAY DIVORCE") (REMASTERED) LYRICS
FROM HARLEM TO ITALY, SOUNDS OF GAY SUBVERSN
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTcric’s notebookIn ncerts Manhattan and Brooklyn, artists explored the termglg of gay inty and Fara Silver for The New York TimPublished Dec.
FATS WALLER - DON'T LET IT BOTHER YOU (OM THE RKO PICTURE "THE GAY DIVORCE") (REMASTERED) LYRICS
But the words leapt off the stage durg an exuberant recent performance that opened a New York Ftival of Song program at Merk Concert Hall, “Ta’t Nobody’s Bs If I Do: Songs of Gay Harlem. Gays and lbians, pecially those drag, were routely persecuted by police and nmned om the pulps of neighborhood church. Yet the creative valy of Harlem’s gay subculture reprented a fiant was a night to celebrate that subculture and brg to light some remarkable mic.
Several of the songs performed have lyrics that imply ght oppose-sex relatnships, like Bsie Smh’s “It Mak My Love Come Down” — though the homosexual subtext would have been hard to miss when Smh sang .