Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance. Her career...

the Blues." Another prominent blues singer was Gladys Bentley, who was known to cross-dress. Bentley was the club owner of Clam House on 133rd Street...

Florence Hines was a pioneer male impersonator of the 1890s. Blues singer Gladys Bentley performed in male attire in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco...

Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1972) 1907 – Gladys Bentley, American blues singer (d. 1960) 1907 – Joe Besser, American actor (d...

painter Gladys Beckwith (1929–2020), American women's studies academic Gladys Bentley (1907–1960), American blues singer, pianist and entertainer Gladys Berejiklian...

they wished. Blues singers Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Gladys Bentley sang about affairs with women to visitors such as Tallulah Bankhead...

is "Get Dressed" from Twilight For Gladys Bentley is in honor of 1920s Harlem Renaissance blues singer Gladys Bentley, who was lesbian. "Sense Of Place...

has traveled far from the concepts demonstrated by Louis Armstrong, Gladys Bentley, Cab Calloway, Anita O'Day, and Leo Watson." Vocal bass is a form of...

novel by Clement Woods featuring a fictionalized character based on Gladys Bentley Deep Rivers (Spanish: Los ríos profundos), a 1958 novel by José María...

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has traveled far from the concepts demonstrated by Louis Armstrong, Gladys Bentley, Cab Calloway, Anita O’Day, and Leo Watson”. Another method of scat...

1934, and featured cross-dressing waitresses as well as entertainer Gladys Bentley. Nightclubs with drag shows drew both gay and straight audiences. During...

a license in order to perform in men's clothing). Figures including Gladys Bentley, an out butch lesbian performer, regularly subverted and challenged...

(2nd ed.). Westminster John Knox Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0664233662. "Gladys Bentley". queerculturalcenter.org. Archived from the original on November 10...

Bentley (born 1974), American entertainer and designer, former assistant to Diddy Geoffrey Bryan Bentley (1909–1996), English priest Gladys Bentley (1907–1960)...

control of the bar Babe Scott booked performers such as Tina Rubio, Gladys Bentley, Frances Faye, Midge Williams, Moms Mabley and Beverly Shaw, the latter...

Wayback Machine, Musicomh.com. Retrieved 29 June 2007. Belge, Kathy. Gladys Bentley: Bulldagger who Sang the Blues Archived 21 February 2009 at the Wayback...

was announced including: Alvin Ailey, W. H. Auden, Josephine Baker, Gladys Bentley, Glenn Burke, Quentin Crisp, Divine, Marie Equi, Fereydoun Farrokhzad...

Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Moms Mabley, Mabel Hampton, Alberta Hunter, and Gladys Bentley. Places like Savoy Ballroom and the Rockland Palace hosted drag-ball...

website. "HARLEM NIGHT CLUBS BRILLIANT AND LIVELY – ADELAIDE HALL, GLADYS BENTLEY FEATURED STARS", The Pittsburgh Courier, 18 August 1934. Adelaide Hall...

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Bradbury; virtuoso cellist Ennio Bolognini; blues singer and pianist Gladys Bentley; strongmen Jack LaLanne and Paul Anderson; and actor John Barbour all...

1931 Georgia Acoustic blues Ed Bell 1905 1960s Alabama Piedmont blues Gladys Bentley 1907 1960 Pennsylvania Vaudeville blues Black Ace 1905 1972 Texas Country...

Orchestra, the Charles Mingus Sextet, Johnny Otis & His Orchestra, the Gladys Bentley Quintet, and the Al Stomp Russell Trio. Otis René and his brother Leon...

mezzo-soprano, 68 January 5 – Jakob van Domselaer, composer, 69 January 18 – Gladys Bentley, blues singer, 52 (pneumonia) January 24 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and...

March 2012. "Harlem Night Clubs Brilliant and Lively – Adelaide Hall, Gladys Bentley Featured Stars, The Pittsburgh Courier, 18 August 1934. "Adelaide Hall:...

performers Lillyn Brown, the original Bessie Brown and Alberta Whitman." Gladys Bentley Black Vaudeville List of drag kings Sampson, Henry T (2013). Blacks...

Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Moms Mabley, Mabel Hampton, Alberta Hunter, and Gladys Bentley. Places like Savoy Ballroom and the Rockland Palace hosted drag-ball...