Two Loves: Josephine Baker, Spy, Star, and Bisexual Icon | LGBTQ+ History
Lamplight on wet cobblestones. A cheetah on a diamond collar. A cup of coffee that changed a speech.
Tonight we travel to Paris in 1925 to meet Josephine Baker: born poor in St. Louis in 1906, famous overnight at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées at nineteen, a spy for French intelligence who hid secrets in her sheet music, the mother of twelve adopted children at her château in the Dordogne, the only woman to give a speech at the 1963 March on Washington, and the first Black woman inducted into the Panthéon in 2021. She sang that she had two loves, her country and Paris. Her son and biographer…
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