His novels include Why We Never Danced the Charleston, the Lambda Literary Award winner What the Dead Remember and the Lambda-nominated The German Officer’s Boy. He has served as Assistant Director of the South Carolina Historical Society, Director of the North Carolina Preservation Consortium, Archivist of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, and is now Scholar in Residence at the College’s Addlestone Library. All this began to change as the pride movement grew nationally and locally.Ī native of Charleston, Harlan Greene is an award-winning novelist, archivist, and historian. This could lead to the loss of respect, professions, houses, families, position in society, and even life and liberty. It proceeds through the next 350 years, during which it was not just an advantage to blend in, but a necessity for if discovered, those men and women not fitting the dominant culture’s stereotyped definition of binary correctness often paid dearly for being identified, for being different, for breaking the law. The story begins with early observations by the first European settlers critical of the acceptance of hermaphroditic persons by native tribes. There are no statues to LGBTQ people, and very f ew official mentions. Though they have been here all along, contributing greatly to the creation of one of America’s most distinctive cities, there are still discrepancies in the recording and acknowledgment of their far-reaching history.
The book provides an informative look at the Holy City ’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other sexual minorities community. Evening Post Books will soon release the book, The Real Rainbow Row by historian Harlan Greene, who digs deep and uncovers a wealth of knowledge about Charleston’s LGBTQ past and present.
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