Gladys Bentley: Timeline

Timeline: Life of Gladys Bentley

A documented chronology of the life of the famous blues singer.

See also: Gladys Bentley: August 12, 1907–January 18, 1960

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Timeline

1907, August 12

Born

1935

Gladys Bentley and artist Prentiss Taylor, about 1935.

1952, August

Bentley, Gladys. "I Am A Woman Again. Famous entertainer tells how she found happiness in love through medical treatment for her strange affliction". Ebony, volume VII, No. 12, August 1952, pages 92-98.

1960, January 18

Died.

1992

Bentley, Gladys. "How Much Can I Stand." Mean Mothers: Independent Women's Blues, Vol. 1. New York: Rosetta Records (RR1300), 1992.

Faderman, Lillian. 1992. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.

1994

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

1998, Spring

Garber, Eric. "Gladys Bentley: The Bulldagger Who Sang the Blues." OUTLook: National Lesbian & Gay Quarterly 1 (Spring 1998): 52-61.

Links

Gladys Bentley. GLBTQ.com

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