#gladysbentley

[intellectures]

Vom Verbrechen namens Leben

Die US-amerikanische Kulturhistorikerin Saidiya Hartman erzählt in ihrem Band »Aufsässige Leben, schöne Experimente« fulminant von der geächteten Rebellion schwarzer Queers zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese Studie verändert nachhaltig den Blick auf die Selbstbehauptung des Schwarzen Lebens in den USA. Read the full article

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[mistressofthemacabresworld]

#black trans lives matter #lgbtq #michael jackson #sidney poitier #sister rosetta tharpe #cab calloway #harry belafonte #maryelliotthill #gladysbentley #elza soares #william marshall #black is king #proud and powerful #black power #black history #black pride #black history month #black lives matter

[antidee]

#GladysBentley was one of the out Lesbian voices & pioneers of the #HarlemRenaissance that embraced gender bending, trans identity, & bent all the rules that society at the time frowned upon women to sing about. Billed as a “male impersonator”, Bentley also played piano, flirted with women during performances, & in the end sadly became a victim of society/gay conversion therapy. “When my two brothers were born, I began to hate them as we grew up. I suppose the reason was that they were admired while I was scorned . . . At the age of nine and ten, I stole their suits and wore them to school. I think I began wearing their clothes feeling that I was getting even with them, but soon I began to feel more comfortable in boys clothes than in dresses.” - #GladysBentley https://www.instagram.com/p/CBBpFX8DqCy/?igshid=yqtwcdgi4f3m

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[dapperq]

Black History Month celebrating Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960), an American blues singer, pianist and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance. #dapperq #dappered #blm #bhm #gladysbentley

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[22immi]

Gladys Bentley, 1940

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[sadiesavestheday]

Today let’s look at #GladysBentley. Transcript : Bentley was a lesbian blues performer who shocked audiences with her lyrics and crossdressing in suits. She was of the many stars of the Harlem Renaissance and attracted audiences from all over to see her act. Unfortunately she was forced to renounce her sexuality and declare that lesbians were not real women. “From the time I can remember anything, I never wanted a man to touch me. ... Soon I began to feel more comfortable in boys’ clothes than in dresses.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CKzlMNyD1hf/?igshid=1f8pi3sildqu0

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[sablesouls]

Advertisement for Mona's Club 440 in 1942, with the explicit use of the word "gay" featured prominently. The word "gay" during the 1940s also denoted "happy," and to the casual reader even the reference to "butch," meaning masculine in gay argot, might have escaped attention. However, the discerning, sophisticated, 1942 reader would quickly understand that Mona's Club 440 catered to an almost exclusively woman audience during World War II. Gladys Bentley carved out a place for herself amidst this curiosity, playing at rent parties and the legendary speakeasies of "Jungle Alley" at 133 between Lenox and Seventh Avenue. She would transform popular tunes of the day with raunchy naughty playful lyrics. Dressed in signature tux and top hat , she openly and riotously flirted with women in the audience. Her popularity and salary was ever increasing , as she was frequently mentioned in many of the entertainment columns of the day. #gladysbentley #lgbt🌈 #butch #harlemrenaissance #harlem #monasclub400

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[dangerliesbeforeyou]

Inktober 2019 - Day 9~ (Important women in history) • Swing = Gladys Bentley~ Couldn’t not include someone involved in jazz/blues/swing in this prompt lol & decided to go with Gladys, who was a musician in the 1920’s! She has an incredibly interesting history tbh in her early life she was openly gay & also often dressed in traditionally ‘male’ outfits! • • #inktober2019 #inktober #gladysbentley #drawing #sketch I did think of drawing Billie Holiday for this, since she was such a big influence on jazz & music in general.... Gladys is a lot less well known though so thought it’d be cool to explore that u know?? https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Zc_yCAwx-/?igshid=dj7chvzxe4c

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[living-life-for-you]

June 9, Gladys Bentley was born August 12, Kamerican blues singer, pianist and entertainer during the harlem renaissance, her career skyrocked when she apperead as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer. She left her home at the age of 16 due to her family's inabilty to accept her, and moved out to Harlem. She started playing at Harry Hansberry's Clam House bc she heard that they needed a male pianist, and that they were the city's most notorious gay speakeasy, and she began performing in men's attire, and perfected her act. She was known to dress in signature tuxedo and top hat, while playing the piano and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes in a deep voice while flirting with women in the audience. She was known to mock the high class imagery with low class humor, while applying aspects of the sexually charged black blues to demure, romantic white ballads. In 1935, she headlined at Harlem's Ubangi Club and was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens, and performed there for 3 years before it closed. At the decline of the Harlem speakeasies with the repeal of Prohibition, she moved to Southern California. Unfortunately, she did not achieve the same success in California, that she did in New York, and was continously harrassed for wearing men's clothing. During the McCarthy Era she declared that she was cured of her homosexuality by taking female hormone, and in an essay for Ebony magazine, in 1952, "I Am a Woman Again" describing her cure of homosexuality. At the end of her life Bentley became a devotee of The Temple of Love in Christ, Inc working to becoming ordained. She passed away at the age of 52 from pneumonia, in 1960. Gladys was revoultionary, she was different from other drag kings/male impersonators, she did not try to pass as a man, she exerted a black female masculinity that troubled the distinction between masculine and feminine and black and white. In 2019, NY Times newspaper began a series called "Overlooked" where they republish obituaries of historical minorities and women, to correct a longstanging biases by previous reports. #pride🌈 #loveislove #lgbtq🌈 #gladysbentley #lgbthistory #loudnproud #mccarthyism https://www.instagram.com/p/ByjaPNalFPraR_k0_JxMo1eKHhOHrSEQvdLcj40/?igshid=11qjei7jmossk

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[ritware1850]

#Repost @caribbeannostalgia ・・・ Gladys Alberta Bentley, "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player", was an blues singer, pianist and entertainer of Trinibagonian heritage. In a recording career spanning 20 years, she recorded for the OKeh, Victor, Excelsior, and Flame labels. #portofspain #trinidad #gladysbentley

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[capricecorbett]

Collection F.Driggs: Gladys BENTLEY and Willie BRYANT. Harlem. USA. New York City. 1936. #GladysBentley #WillieBryant #Harlem #NYC #NewYork #NewYorkCity #photograph #photography #Photo #IAmCapriceCorbett #StrongFaceNation #ApolloTheater

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[arcnyc]

The Internet Archive, George Blood, L.P. and the ARChive of Contemporary Music are digitizing 78s for future generations. 200,000+ collected, 35,000+ digitized, 22 collections already included.  Join the project for preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records! Gladys Bentley Quintette - Red Beans & Rice Blues (link to audio in profile) http://ift.tt/2ie8tCp great78.archive.org/ arcmusic.org archive.org georgeblood.com #78 #78rpm #78collection #78rpmcollection #78record #78rpmera #78rpmcommunity #recordcollection #vintagerecords #shellac #gladysbentley #rhythmandblues #excelsiorrecords — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2xLLplK

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[22immi]

Gladys Bentley, late ‘40s

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[sablesouls]

⚜️Gladys Bentley⚜️ (stage name, Bobbie Minton) was a Harlem Renaissance blues singer and cross dresser. She was one of the most well-known and financially successful black women in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. She was a pioneer in pushing the envelope of gender, sexuality, class, and race with parody and exaggeration, personally and professionally. #gladysbentley #crossdresser #lgbt🌈 #harlemrenaissance #harlem

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