Please Note: This program meets at the New York Historical at 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024.
Immerse yourself in the richness of Black LGBTQ+ life in the 1920s and 1930s. Uniting painting, sculpture, artifacts, documents, photographs and music, this exhibition at the New York Historical celebrates the creativity, innovation and resilience of Black LGBTQ+ Harlemites in the face of racist pressures and homophobic laws. Discover posh segregated Harlem nightclubs where LGBTQ+ singers and dancers lit up the stages, along with cellar speakeasies and rent parties where lesbian, bisexual and transmasculine blues queens sang for gay and straight working-class Harlemites partying together. Throughout, the exhibition provides a sweeping portrait of Harlem after the First World War. This exhibition marks the centennial of The New Negro, the groundbreaking 1925 anthology of art, essays and poetry edited by Alain Locke.
Frequency
One Time