For Women’s History Month, GO is celebrating LGBTQ women we wish we could have learned about in high school history class.
Gladys Bentley made a name for herself during the Harlem Renaissance as a blues singer, pianist and entertainer. At the young age of 16, she moved from her hometown of Philadelphia to New York City to impress a big Broadway agent. Her career as a performer began to take off during prohibition at Harry Hansberry’s Clam House (one of NYC’s notoriously gay speakeasies). The club needed a new male pianist, so Bentley dressed up in men’s clothes and won the