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Read Black: Beyond Flamboyants

George M. Johnson's FLAMBOYANTS is a celebration of queer Black creators from the Harlem Renaissance. It's a great entry point into each of their lives, but if you want to dig a little further, here are some books and other media by and about each of the folks they mention in the book.

Pima County Public Library

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  • This memoir was first published in the 1940s in French, and only just translated into English for the first time this year.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Tiny Reparations Books, 2025. — 92 B1746f 2025
  • eBook, 2010–Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2010- — eBook
  • This is fiction about Ma Rainey, not an authoritative history, but still offers an interesting insight into her life.
    Book, 1985New York : New American Library, [1985] — 812.54 W6916m 1985
  • The New Negro

    An Interpretation

    Locke, Alain
    eBook, 2021Dreamscape Media, 2021
  • Book, 2018New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] — 92 L79s 2018
  • Book, 2017Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. — 782.42164 C5483e 2017
  • eBook, 2010–Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2010- — eBook
  • Amiable With Big Teeth

    a Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem

    McKay, Claude, 1890-1948
    Book, 2017New York : Penguin Books, [2017] — Fiction McKay
  • eBook, 2010–Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2010- — eBook
  • T'ain't Nobody's Bizness

    Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

    Streaming Video, 2016[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016. — Streaming Video
  • Book, 2008New York : HarperPerennial ModernClassics, 2008, c1935. — 398.20899 H946m 2008