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Richard Bruce Nugent. Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance. Richard Bruce Nugent. Born in Washington, DC on July 2, 1906 Richard Henry Nugent Pauline Minerva Bruce Moved to New York at 14 First taste for art Moved back to Washington. Langston Hughes. Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Richard Bruce Nugent Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance
Richard Bruce Nugent • Born in Washington, DC on July 2, 1906 • Richard Henry Nugent • Pauline Minerva Bruce • Moved to New York at 14 • First taste for art • Moved back to Washington
Langston Hughes • Georgia Douglas Johnson • June 1925, met Hughes • Offered encouragement and support • Recovered "Shadow" from his wastebasket
Smoke, Lilies, and Jade • Alain Locke’s The New Negro (1925) • Sadhji • Wallace Thurman • FIRE!! • Smoke, Lilies, and Jade
Niggeratti Manor From the film “Brother to Brother”
Other Works • Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life • Harmon Foundation • Beyond Where the Stars Stood Still
Harlem Cultural Council • Community Planning Conference at Columbia University in 1964 • Cultural Planning workshop • Elected Co-Chair • Chair of the Program Committee until March 1967
Later Life • Black Men/White Men: A Gay Anthology (1983) • In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology (1986)