Gladys Bentley’s Mona’s Club 440, Harlem, 1942 (video)
The advertisement above if for Mona’s Club 440 in 1942, with the explicit use of the word “gay” featured prominently. Shop, The New Harlem World Shop! Take a Harlem Gospel Continue Reading →
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Harlem’s Gladys Bentley, “America’s Greatest Sepia Piano Player” 1920’s, (video)
The amazing Gladys Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer during the beginning of Harlem’s Renaissance in the 1920’s. Shop, The New Harlem World Shop! Continue Reading →
Downtown Sings Uptown With Songs From Gay Harlem At The Kaufman Music Center
This unique event, features rarities, 21st century premieres, and well-known works by Harlem’s Bessie Smith, Gladys Bentley, Billy Strayhorn, Porter Grainger and songs popularized by Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, and Continue Reading →
Join The Harlem Renaissance 100 Community Celebration 2019
Harlem One Stop, a destination marketing organization, and tour operator in Harlem, and the Harlem Cultural Collaborative Partners will kick-off the Harlem Renaissance 100 community celebration. Shop, The New Harlem Continue Reading →
Mae West’s Harlem State Of Mind, 1930’s (video)
Harlem has always been a combination of high and low, from the 1920’s to the 1930’s Mae West made a name for herself on the Vaudeville circuit with plays as Continue Reading →
Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied At Maysles In Harlem (video)
Tongues Untied is a film essay by Marlon Riggs, a Texas-born African American poet, filmmaker, educator, and gay rights activist. The film, which Riggs describes as his legacy, celebrates black men Continue Reading →
Ubangi Club, Harlem, New York, 1934-1937
Gay Harlem writes that the once known Harlem Club and the Harlem Tavern, the speakeasy re-opened as the Ubangi Club in (April) 1934. It was located on 131st Street and Continue Reading →
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