The latest edition of Lily Lines (formerly The Lily), the Washington Post's twice-weekly gender and identity newsletter, offers a list of "5 Black LGBTQ Pioneers to Know for Black History Month:" Lucy Hicks Anderson, Gladys Bentley, Bayard Rustin, Pauli Murray and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. I suspect Rustin is the most famous member of this group for most of us, both because he was a man and because we discussed John D'Emilio's biography, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, back in 2006. We also read about Bentley in George Chauncey's Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1880-1940, which we discussed in 2009. And some of you may seen the recent film about Murray, "My Name Is Pauli Murray." But Anderson and Griffin-Gracy were new figures for me, at least; the latter is still going strong at 81, by the way.
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