Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor
The University of Michigan Press
2010, [2010]
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| Series: | Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway"
- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s)
- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way
- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle
- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters
- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues
- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best."