According to George Chauncey’s eponymous Gay New York, the Harlem Renaissance of the ’20s provided an opportunity for gay men to create their own social and cultural spaces within the burgeoning nightlife in the neighborhood.
A musician with a barbiton. Fresco from the Tomb of the Triclinium in the Necropolis of Monterozzi; unknown Etruscan artist, ca. 470 BCE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Tarquinia, Italy.