The Harlem Renaissance:
As Gay As It Was BlackOpening Reception CANCELLED
February 11, 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibit Runs February 1-28
Presented by Stonewall Library & Archives
Broward Main Library Gallery 6
100 South Andrews AveFree
954 763-8565
www.stonewall-library.org
According to noted African American historian Henry Louis Gates, the Harlem Renaissance was “surely as gay as it was black, not that it was exclusively either of these.” With few exceptions, the writers, artists and performers of this seminal period in black history were closeted, but nonetheless imbued their work with coded references to their sexuality. In a segregated America, they gloried not only in black artistic achievement, but also in black identity. With gay men and lesbians in legal and social limbo, the Harlem Renaissance celebrated sexuality with a level of tolerance remarkable for that era.
This important retrospective of the Harlem Renaissance and the LGBT artists that influenced it spotlights gay life in Harlem during this period; surveys the artistic movement that defined black culture in the 1920s and 1930s; and profiles its leading gay, lesbian and bisexual participants.
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