Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
Contents:
- HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC
- THE GAY HARLEM RENAISSANCE
- WE'VE BEEN TO A MARVELO PARTY: WHEN GAY HARLEM MET QUEER BRA
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC
She appeared at the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club, but she was also often seen cked out a whe tuxedo sgg rnchy songs at gay speakeasi like Harry Hansberry’s Clam Hoe, backed up by drag performers. One of the few openly gay Black wrers of the perd, Richard Bce Nugent, published the short story “Smoke, Lili and Ja, ” nsired a semal work of gay Harlem for pictg bisexualy and a 19-year-old male artist sexually volved wh another man.
Wrg that picted Gay Harlem went out of prt as well.
Read more: You’ve Probably Heard of the Red Sre, but the Lser-Known, Anti-Gay ‘Lavenr Sre’ Is Rarely Tght Schools The richns of that culture still remaed, wag to be redisvered—a procs that began after the 1960s and ‘70s gay rights movement was followed by the loss of life durg the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s, which raised awarens of the need to prerve gay history. 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.
THE GAY HARLEM RENAISSANCE
From the start of his profsnal sgg reer at the Hot-Cha, Daniels built a voted followg of gay fans wh his sophistited rendns of jazz standards and showtun.
Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Gay Voic of the Harlem Renaissance.
WE'VE BEEN TO A MARVELO PARTY: WHEN GAY HARLEM MET QUEER BRA
“A Spectacle Color: The Lbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem.
” Hidn om History: Reclaimg the Gay and Lbian Past, ed. Wrote of the Harlem Renaissance that was “surely as gay as was Black.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
In , their wrg explored terracial relatnships, homosexualy, lor prejudice, promiscuy and other ntroversial topics. To help queer revelers avoid late-night homophobic attacks on the street. Gay men mgled, smoked “reefer” and drank bathtub g at Gumby’s Book Stud, the preement lerary and artistic salon of the era.
Prid over by Alex Gumby, a charismatic, fashn-forward and openly gay Black history archivist, the stud attracted many famed Harlem Renaissance wrers and tellectuals.
Walker, Ameri’s first Black female lnaire, hosted sr of lbians, gay men and celebri at lavish soire her apartment on 136th Street.