Guess who's coming to dinner?

On March 21, 1924, exactly 100 years ago today, a dinner party helped launch the Harlem Renaissance.   As Veronica Chambers and Michelle May-Curry recount in this fascinating New York Times article, the attendees included several LGBTQ authors whose books we've read or read about over the years: Langston Hughes, Alain Locke and Carl Van Vechten. Though the gathering was barely covered at the time, requiring Chambers and May-Curry to reconstruct that glittering night, they point out that "In the decade after the dinner, the writers who were associated with the Renaissance published more than 40 volumes of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. That body of work transformed a community as well as the landscape of American literature."