The lush life of Billy Strayhorn, the gay Black man who was Duke Ellington's 'right arm'

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The lush life of Billy Strayhorn, the gay Black man who was Duke Ellington's 'right arm'

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Gay: News & Community@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 days ago

Strayhorn wrote many of Ellington's big hits and lived as an out gay man in mid-century America.

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