Despite recent attempts by the state government to argue otherwise, queer stories have always been a part of Florida's Black History.
When we say gay in Miami, Miami Beach is uplifted as the queer capital—a paradoxical place that draws more than 170,000 people each year for the Pride Parade, but also has a deep history of anti-Blackness that persists still today.
“Being in our enclave of that part of Liberty City was safe,” says Cobb, who pulls back the neighborhood’s layers in a way that only an elder who grew up in Jim Crow Miami can really do. “Being on the other side was not safe.” The history of racism faced by Black queer folks in Miami Beach runs deep. Bisexual icon Josephine Baker“I cannot work where my people cannot go. It’s as simple as that,” she told the Copa City Club manager, who eventually relented and allowed the first desegregated show at the venue.
Cobb’s family and others in the neighborhood would assign watch duties on the Black side of the wall’s entrance come nightfall; mostly, this task fell to the men. If a loved one didn’t get in on time or shortly after, it was a sign they might be in trouble. “She would wear the same kind of shoes that my father had on, which were Stacy Adams tie-up shoes, and she had on a crisp white shirt and a jacket. You could tell she was a woman. But she dressed very much like my father did,” Cobb says.
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