Strange Brother is a gay novel written by Blair Niles published in 1931. The story is about a platonic relationship between a heterosexual woman and a gay man and takes place in New York City in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Strange Brother is significant because it provides an early and objective documentation of homosexual issues during the Harlem Renaissance.
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“In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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—Judith Viorst (20th century)