Top Row: Cultural pressures led such Harlem Renaissance writers as Angelina Weld Grimké (left) and Nella Larsen to write about their sexuality in veiled terms.
Second Row: More recent lesbian and bisexual authors such as Audre Lorde (left) and Alice Walker have addressed same-sex attraction more explicitly.
Image of Audre Lorde is a detail from a photograph be Elsa Dorfman and appears under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Image of Alice Walker is a detail from a photography by Virginia De Bolt and appears under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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