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September 17: Billy Strayhorn — Black, Gay, Gifted & Changing the Sound of America
🏳️🌈 THIS DAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY Some people make history standing behind a microphone. Others make history writing the music the person holding the microphone performs. September 17 belongs to one of those creative forces. Billy Strayhorn was a Black gay composer, pianist, lyricist and arranger whose music became deeply connected to the sound of one of America's greatest jazz orchestras. Yet for many years, the name most people recognized wasn't Strayhorn's. It was Duke Ell
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