Contents:
- MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
- TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK AND GAY: LORRAE HANSBERRY
- LORRAE HANSBERRY'S GAY POLICS
MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
By necsy, her engagement wh the homophile movement remaed hidn, but 1957, the DOB’s magaze, The Ladr, published two letters she submted. ———Episo TranscriptEric Marc Narratn: I’m Eric Marc, and this is Makg Gay History.
TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK AND GAY: LORRAE HANSBERRY
” One em ma both lists: “my homosexualy. ”——— Many thanks to everyone who mak Makg Gay History possible: senr producer Nahanni Ro, -producer and puty director Inge De Taeye, d engeer Jeff Towne, rearcher Brian Ferree, photo edor Michael Green, genealogist Michael Leclerc, and our social media team, Cristiana Peña, Nick Porter, and Den Louren.
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LORRAE HANSBERRY'S GAY POLICS
” In a readg of the “homosexual” lerature that was not apparently her first, Hansberry negotiated the problem of difference, showg a sensivy to need to fd separate and to jo, and monstrated remarkable aptns at applyg an unrstandg of the civil rights movement to the qutn of lbianism. After addrsg the needs of separatism, Hansberry pared the dictat of black rpectabily to the homophile’s adoptn of a siar strategy, argug that the “most splendid argument is simple and to the pot, Ralph Bunche, wh all his clean fgernails, gre, and, of urse, unniable service to the human race, uld still be sulted, nied a hotel room or meal many parts of our untry.
On the other, Hansberry ma a number of observatns about the homophile movement that seemed to reflect a staed readg of The Ladr and more than a passg tert lbian issu.