Langston Hughes

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes

 

Anyone familiar with him? I basically just know the name but in a recent episode of "Timeless" Rufus is pretending to be him.

 

Also in an old episode of L&O Lennie mentioned him when talking to Lt Van Buren.

 

Hughes may have been gay.

 

I thought it interesting that from this wiki bio it says that he attended an integrated high school. Unusual for the time? It being before the Brown decision.

[coriolis888]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes

 

Anyone familiar with him? I basically just know the name but in a recent episode of "Timeless" Rufus is pretending to be him.

 

 

One of his most famous quotes:

 

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

"May have been gay." See this:

 

Arnold Rampersad, Hughes’ principal biographer, wrote: “Hughes found some young men, especially dark-skinned men, appealing and sexually fascinating. (Both in his various artistic representations, in fiction especially…) Virile young men of very dark complexion fascinated him.”

 

While in his early sixties, Hughes seemed to fall in love with singer Gilbert Price (1942-1991). Unpublished love poems by Hughes were addressed to a man he called “Beauty.” Hughes’ traveling companion in the Caribbean, Zell Ingram, was gay but Hughes disguised him as a heterosexual in his first autobiography. Hughes’ poem “To F.S.” is thought to be about Ferdinand Smith (1893-1961), a sailor from Jamaica whom he met in the 1920s and kept in touch with for over thirty years.