On a personal level, I know that I wouldn’t be where I am today without the numerous Black LGBTIA+ writers who not only challenged color lines but norms surrounding gender and sexuality as well. However, many of these writers are not widely known by name today in spite of their contributions. Over the next few months, and not only during Black History Month, I will be sharing short entries about influential individuals and some of their works in hopes to help keep their legacies alive.
She passed away at the age of 60, but her diary compilation Give Us Each Day was published posthumously and gave readers over 50 years later a deeper insight into who Nelson truly was. From my view, not knowing if she consented to having those writings published leave me conflicted but it does bring me joy to know that she seemingly accepted her feelings for more than one gender and found love.
As someone who did not “come out” until adulthood (not that it is a one time event or requirement), I feel a lot of emotions when I consider the possibilities of Thurman’s experiences and what may have happened had he lived longer. We may never truly know if he was finding himself in his writing, but he undoubtedly helped many others see ways to love and accept themselves. Bayard Rustin (1912–1987)
Rustin was perhaps best known having been by the side of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during public demonstrations. Though many younger people may not know who he was, even those who have heard of him may not have known that Rustin was gay. Unfortunately, he was forced to spend over a month in jail and register as a sex offender for being caught being consensually intimate with another man in the 1950s. For this reason, he had to take a more private role in fighting for civil rights, which may have been the reason for why he wrote as many powerful pieces as he did! Some of his works include Civil rights: The True Frontier (1963) and Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin (1971). For the last decade of his life, he was in a relationship with Walter Naegle (pictured to the right of Rustin), who would eventually accept Rustin’s Medal of Freedom that was posthumously awarded in 2013. Rustin was not pardoned of the crime he was charged with until 2020, which finally legally cleared his name. - Bek Sources and Further Reading: "Alice Dunbar Nelson." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 20 Jul. 1998. academic-eb-com.proxy.seattleu.edu/levels/collegiate/article/Alice-Dunbar-Nelson/2904. "Bayard Rustin." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 5 Feb. 2020. academic-eb-com.proxy.seattleu.edu/levels/collegiate/article/Bayard-Rustin/1454. Gilmore, Matthew. Bayard Rustin & James Baldwin: Fighters and Friends. 2014. Shareef, Muhammad. "Black and Queer in the Harlem Renaissance." Queer Majority, edited by Lorien Hunter, Oct. 2020, www.queermajority.com/essays-all/black-and-queer-in-the-harlem-renaissance. Viera, Bené. "This Harlem Renaissance writer seemed to live an ordinary life — but her diaries revealed years of passionate lesbian affairs." Timeline, 13 Apr. 2018, timeline.com/alice-dunbar-nelsons-diaries-revealed-years-of-lesbian-affairs-f1469a6d591a.
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