Gladys Bentley, born in Philadelphia, was a blues singer who primarily worked during the Harlem Renaissance. She was an out lesbian who performed sexually charged lyrics in men's clothing and had a public wedding to a white woman in 1941. Her Ebony article "I Am a Woman Again" and marriage to a man seemed to invalidate her queerness, but many historians believe that this was a strategic reaction to increasing homophobia in the 1930s. She died of pneumonia in her Los Angeles home. To learn more, see "Confronting Erasure, Rejecting Visibility, and Demanding to Be Seen: Transmasculine Stories from U.S. Archives, 1940-1975,” by Sam Brooks.