The Closeted Truth: Harlem Renaissance And Homosexuality
Quiet as it’s keep, many of the most notable writers of the Harlem Renaissance identified themselves — openly or not-so-openly — as homosexual, bisexual or sexually ambiguous.
Luminaries of the New Negro movement such as Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, Richard Bruce Nugent, Angela Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar Nelson and Langston Hughes, all fell somewhere along the LGBT spectrum.
Though remnants of their sexual identity can be clearly pinpointed in their literary works, few scholars managed to recognize the indisputable relation between the Harlem Renaissance and homosexuality. Some even postulate that scholars deliberately erased such details from biographies and textbooks.
RELATED:
The Top 10 Black Gay And Lesbian Figures Of All-Time
- Trump Calls Kamala Harris ‘Dumb As A Rock’ While Other MAGAts Call Her A ‘DEI Hire’…Again
- Trump’s Brazen Takeover Of The Library Of Congress Is Another Direct Threat To Democracy
- Sean Combs’ Legal Team Claims ‘Mutual Abuse’ In Relationship With Cassie Ventura
- ‘Sinners’: Black Horror Scholars Discuss The Blockbuster Film
- The African American Policy Forum’s 5th Annual CRT Summer School Series Was A Call To Action For Social Justice
