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Eldergays Tell me about Harlem

How was it in back in the day? Did you score plethora of BBC? We’re race relations better?

Come on, we want to know.

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by Anonymousreply 23September 22, 2023 4:30 PM

You'll have to ask Cole Porter and Alexander Woollcott.

by Anonymousreply 1September 22, 2023 1:27 AM

It had a bunch of globe trotters back then, OP

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by Anonymousreply 2September 22, 2023 1:32 AM

[quote]We’re race relations better?

Oh, dear.

by Anonymousreply 3September 22, 2023 1:33 AM

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem, OP.

by Anonymousreply 4September 22, 2023 2:16 AM

Scored more BBC in the Bronx.

by Anonymousreply 5September 22, 2023 2:17 AM

I miss all the hubcaps I lost in Harlem.

by Anonymousreply 6September 22, 2023 2:42 AM

R6 Did you present hole during muggings? That’s so hot.

by Anonymousreply 7September 22, 2023 3:15 AM

uh, gee, this isn’t at all racist now, is it??

by Anonymousreply 8September 22, 2023 3:18 AM

I think Harlem has a f ascinating history. I watched that movie PAssing, shot in Black and White and it gave you a glimpse of the Black MIddle Class lifestyle in Harlem back in the day.

by Anonymousreply 9September 22, 2023 3:25 AM

R4 yes there sure is.

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by Anonymousreply 10September 22, 2023 3:32 AM

Thanks for posting. More hot stories please.

by Anonymousreply 11September 22, 2023 12:50 PM

Where are my New Yorkers at?

by Anonymousreply 12September 22, 2023 2:09 PM

R10 someone else recorded the song and made it a hit before Aretha, but I cannot remember who. But I remember my mother playing it.

by Anonymousreply 13September 22, 2023 2:10 PM

R13 Spanish Harlem was originally performed by Ben E King, most famously known for Stand By Me.

by Anonymousreply 14September 22, 2023 2:54 PM

Harlem was Jewish/Italian until the early 1900s, when Southern blacks began migrating north en masse due to segregation laws and settled there.

by Anonymousreply 15September 22, 2023 3:13 PM

"Uptown" - the Crystals

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by Anonymousreply 16September 22, 2023 3:14 PM

we all took the train

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by Anonymousreply 17September 22, 2023 3:25 PM

I associate the old Harlem with stories about the Harlem Renaissance, Strivers Row, and Langston Hughes, Adam Clayton Powell and Hazel Scott. During Prohibition there was the Cotton Club and all the gangsters. Lots of good stories.

by Anonymousreply 18September 22, 2023 3:26 PM

I got raped in Harlem.

by Anonymousreply 19September 22, 2023 3:28 PM

R19 was it fun?

by Anonymousreply 20September 22, 2023 3:39 PM

No, r20, it wasn't fun. He put a gun to my head and told me he would kill me if I didn't suck his cock. So I sucked his cock. He was ugly. He was smelly. I sucked it anyway.

It didn't become a defining, life-ruining moment in my life, though. This past week, after the Danny Masterson sentencing, I've gone back and forth on whether I would have wanted my rapist to go to jail for ten years. I still don't know. I can make the case either way.

by Anonymousreply 21September 22, 2023 4:16 PM

R21 Too bad this didn't happen to you. 😂

Sorry to be flippant, but I always think of that whenever I hear of someone being robbed at gunpoint.

I guess because I watched CLUELESS as a wee child and was my first exposure to mugging.

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by Anonymousreply 22September 22, 2023 4:23 PM

r22 is why I wish I hadn't bothered to post r21. Why is it so many of you react that way? Do you lie so often, you imagine lying to be other people's default setting? I wish what you said were true, r22. Unfortunately, I really did get raped at gunpoint, December 26, 1976.

by Anonymousreply 23September 22, 2023 4:30 PM
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