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Ep 1: Gladys Bentley

By: Tan France
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  • When sexually explicit lyrics are the least scandalous part of your persona, you know you’re doing something right. Tux and top hat wearing Gladys Bentley was the toast of 1920s Harlem queer culture.
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The Story I Needed to Hear During Pride Month

This in-depth oral history of Gladys Bentley read and researched by Tan France and co. is exactly what I needed to hear today! Gladys’s story needs to be told and what a way to hear it. As a gay woman, and a high school music teacher living in NYC this story helped me feel validated and gave me great material for my music classes. Thank you for highlighting this brilliant artist and her harrowing story!

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Educational & Informative

I really enjoyed this podcast because it put the person being spotlighted into context in history, and gave a clear outline of their life and how and why it is relevant to queer culture today.

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so sick and tired of people being proud not of being in love but just what hole they stick their dick into.

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