Dressed in signature tux and top hat , she openly and riotously flirted with women in the audience. Bentley in performance garb at the Ubangi Club in Harlem, early 1930s.
(Sterling Paige) G ladys Bentley was a phenom — a larger-than-life entertainer whose skills seemed to know no end. i am so thankful for each and everyone of them, and all GODS blessings.
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Daughter of Davis S Bentley and Elsie A Bentley. Gladys Bentley (12 August 1907-18 January 1960) was a famous butch lesbian African-American blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Mervin Oscar Boyer 1888 – 1942 (m. 1914) Siblings. She was frequently harassed for wearing men's clothing.
A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United StatesGladys Bentley (12 August 1907-18 January 1960) was a famous butch lesbian African-American blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance.Bentley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of American George L. Bentley and his wife, a Trinidadian, Mary Mote. Bentley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of American George L. Bentley and his wife, a Trinidadian, Mary Mote.
Elsie Elzina Cummins Bentley 1871 – 1950.
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She appeared at Harry Hansberry's "Clam House" on 133rd Street, one of New York City's most notorious gay speakeasies, in the 1920s, and headlined in the early thirties at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She recorded for the OKeh, Victor, Excelsior, and Flame labels.During the McCarthy Era, she started wearing dresses, married a man (who denied that they ever married), and studied to be a minister, claiming to have been "cured" by taking female hormones.
Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer.
Spouse. She was a 250 pound bulldyke dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tuxedo and top hat), who played a mean piano and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting outrageously with women in the audience.On the decline of the Harlem speakeasies with the repeal of Prohibition, she relocated to southern California, where she was billed as "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player", and the "Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs". Parents.
Movies . She would transform popular tunes of the day with raunchy naughty playful lyrics.
Gladys Bentley (August 12, 1907 January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance.
She died, aged 52, from pneumonia. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website.
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As Steven J. Niven As the Harlem Renaissance waned and her fame faded, Bentley made her way west to Los Angeles and San Francisco, performing at a few famous gay clubs.
Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.
“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.
4 In a spread in More likely, Bentley saw how viscous that McCarthy's "witch hunt" against homosexuals was and thus had to rewrite her act (particularly since she had an aging mother to care for). 2 Zach Wright Bluegrass.
Bentley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of American George L. Bentley and his wife, a Trinidadian, Mary Mote.
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