Gladys Bentley
Gladys Bentley Musician Gladys Bentley was born in Philadelphia in 1907 to a Trinidadian woman and an American man.
Gladys bentley. Photograph of Gladys Bentley by an unidentified photographer 1927-45. Gladys Bentley 1907-1960 the eldest of four in a Trinidadian immigrant family left Philadelphia Pennsylvania at age 16 to join New Yorks Harlem Renaissance jazz scene. On January 8 1960 at age 52 Gladys Bentley died of pneumonia in her Los Angeles home.
Gladys Bentley 1907-1960 was a blues pianist singer performer and drag king pioneer. Gladys Bentley A gender-bending blues performer who became 1920s Harlem royalty. 2013462515 Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
She was the oldest of four children and in her own words neither wanted nor loved because her mother had wanted a boy and was bitterly disappointed. Four boys play in the alley behind the house. Gladys Bentley a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance began her blues career singing at rent parties held to raise rent money by charging attendees and underground establishments in Harlem New York.
Her mother had desperately wanted a boy and when the nurses told her she had a little girl instead the matriarch refused to even touch her baby. The same regressive ideas that pushed her over the edge while she was alive are now being used to revise her story long after her death. Gladys Bentley - Nominee 1907 - 1960 Born in Philadelphia in 1907 Gladys Bentley was taunted as a child for being an overweight tomboy but in a few years she had the last laugh.
The eldest of four children Bentley had a difficult upbringing. Some of us wear the symbols and badges of our nonconformity. Her father was African American and her mother was from Trinidad.
Select this result to view Gladys B Bentleys phone number address and more. She was one of the most well-known and financially successful black women in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. For people like Gladys Bentley happiness was a hard thing to come by in the 50s.
Gladys Bentley came into this world on August 12 1907 as the eldest child of George Bentley and his wife Mary Mote. It only got worse from there. The camera settles on the eldest distinguishing him from the others as the films protagonist but not exaggerating any difference.
Gladys Bentley a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance began her blues career singing at rent parties held to raise rent money by charging attendees and underground establishments in Harlem New York. Gladys Bentley was born on August 12 1907 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania to a working class family. Bentley embraced a lesbian identity.
If Gladys Bentleys life were an Oscar Micheaux film it might open with a shot of the three- story tenement house in Philadelphia in which the entertainer grew up. In celebrating Black History Month I want to personally celebrate the courage and strength of sistah-warrior Gladys Bentley 1907-1960. Bentley a 250-pound African-American lesbian who today we would consider transgender was known as Americas Greatest Sepia Piano Player and the Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs.
In her trademark white tuxedo and top hat the 300-pound gravelly voiced singer and piano player flaunted her reputation as a bulldagger or butch lesbian. The second best result is Gladys B Bentley age 80 in Richmond VA. Gladys Bentley stage name Bobbie Minton was a Harlem Renaissance blues singer and cross dresser.
Gladys Bentley Gladys Bentleys Story. They have also lived in Henrico VA Gladys is related to Felicia Bentley and Gladys M Smith as well as 3 additional people. 179 rows Gladys Bentley 12 August 1907-18 January 1960 was a famous butch.
Americas Greatest Sepia PlayerThe Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs by an unidentified photographer 1946-1949 NMAAHC. They were also a reminder that many of these attitudes linger on and continue to oppress the LGBTQ community some 70 years later.
