Gay voices of the harlem renaissance

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The Queer Harlem Renaissance

Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! The portrayals of men-loving-men in these writers' works vary significantly. Schwarz locates in the poetry of Cullen, Hughes, and McKay the employment of contemporary gay code words, deriving from the Greek discourse of homosexuality and from Walt Whitman.

By contrast, Nugent--the only "out" gay Harlem Renaissance artist--portrayed men-loving-men without reference to racial concepts or Whitmanesque codes.