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A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
It took longer for women, people of lor and genr-nonnformg dividuals to get their regnn of Pri Month and the anti-racism protts that have swept the Uned Stat, we asked historians and scholars which Black lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer figur they would like to see uplifted and celebrated.
‘Black lbian in’Mabel Hampton, a Black lbian activist, was active durg the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, before later gog on to participate the first natnal gay and lbian march on Washgton 1979. Today, those rerds are hoed the Lbian Herstory Archiv New York, and Hartman said they are a ttament to an oft-repeated quote om historian Henry Louis Gat that the Harlem Renaissance was “surely as gay as was Black.