Glad as Heck That You Exist: Lorraine Hansberry 🌱 LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Two quiet letters, three initials, and the young playwright about to change Broadway forever.
Tonight we travel to Greenwich Village in 1957 to meet Lorraine Hansberry (1930 to 1965), who was finishing A Raisin in the Sun in a book-lined apartment on Bleecker Street when she wrote to The Ladder, the Daughters of Bilitis magazine, to say she was glad as heck it existed. Two years later her play became the first by a Black woman produced on Broadway. The part of her life she wrote about in private stayed closed in a box of papers until 2013.
Along the way: a lamp above Bleecker Street, a play…
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