The Importance Of Gay Rights In The Great Gatsby

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important movements of the twentieth century regarding many art forms and human rights for African American People. It was not only important for African American People, but also, as few know, for this subculture of homosexuals, that began to shape during this time in Harlem, New York City. Eric Garber wrote:
Signs of this suburban culture and of the fact, that it was illegal for men to love other men outside of the suburban ‘safe-zones’, can also be found in The Great Gatsby.
When Nick Carraway is in the company of higher class people, such as his cousin Daisy, or at Gatsby’s parties, it seems fitting that he does not seem to show his interest in men. But when he’s in a suburban area, such as the building in which the apartment of Tom Buchanan’s Mistress is, he is more at ease with himself and is comfortable enough to sleep with a complete stranger in his flat.
Even today, in the twenty-first century, the LBGT+ Community has to fight for their rights, and given the fact, that it is still illegal in some parts of this world to love the same gender or to identify as a gender apart from the persons biological sex, it surprises me not, that Fitzgerald did not declare his narrator Nick Carraway as an openly gay men, who fell in love with his rich and mysterious neighbour Jay Gatsby; instead he just laid out little breadcrumbs of evidence that he had indeed homoerotic and homoromantic tendencies which showed in Joran Bakers masculinity and in Mr McKee’s