The Harlem Vibrate Sub-Culture During The Harlem Renaissance

However, before the criminalization of homosexual behavior New York City and a handful of other cities across the United States saw a blossoming of gay culture. The subculture that developed specifically in New York’s Harlem was part of a greater moment widely referred to as the Harlem Renaissance. This movement was predominately Afro-American and covered countless aspects of culture. Gay men could congregate at the dozens of open gay bars with little disturbance from the police, a fact that would change greatly in the decades following the start of theGreat Depression. These bars drew white homosexuals to experience the vibrate subculture in Harlem and led to a forging of cross racial friendships that arguably could have laid the ground work