スミソニアン博物館のインスタグラム(smithsonian) - 3月8日 07時48分
Gladys Bentley began her blues career singing at rent parties (held to raise rent money by charging attendees) and underground establishments in Harlem, New York.
As Bentley got more popular, she started performing at Harry Hansberry’s Clam House—one of New York City's most well-known gay speakeasies—in the 1920s. Her recording career spanned two decades.
She sang raunchy remakes of popular tunes in a deep voice, dressed in her signature men’s style of tuxedo and top hat. She was sometimes backed up by a chorus line of drag queens.
Bentley was openly lesbian during her career. Later in her life, during the McCarthy era, she denounced her lesbianism in the media.
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