Talk:Billy Strayhorn

message: I've removed Duke Ellington's eulogy/album notes.  We can't simply post the whole thing here, it's copyright infringement.  Even if it weren't, Wikiquotes (or Wikisource) would be better suited. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 01:06, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio 

message: The only statement in that section to justify it being a section is the unsourced statement that he was "openly gay."  Probably he was, but there's nothing in the section about it.  Everything in there, including his relationship with Bridges, could be moved to the rest of the biography.KD Tries Again (talk) 04:31, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, also, it sure would be nice if there were a cite for the fact that he was 'openly' gay... what does that mean in this context? did he make an announcement? public displays of affection? an open secret?  For this reason I'm gonna tag it.  By all means merge it all into the bio. Dlabtot (talk) 04:46, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm really surprised that a source for this is so hard to find. Someone? Dlabtot (talk) 06:47, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Openly Gay" 

message: I changed the following:  "the harsh reality of a black man trying to make it in the then-completely white classical world." to "the harsh reality of a black man trying to make it in the then almost completely white classical world."  There WERE some African Americans performing classical music at the time, including opera singer Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson (who would late found the National Negro Opera Company in the very same Pittsburgh neighborhood (Homewood) where Strayhorn grew up), and my grandfather, Clyde Leroy Glass, who was Evanti's closest friend and frequent accompanist.(Library of Congress, National Negro Opera Company Collection)Carlaclaws (talk) 17:22, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "then-completely white classical world" - not quite 

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message: The External Link "Ginell, Richard S..Biography of Billy Strayhorn at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-04-26." is a malicious link. 
I am new to editing Wikipedia, so I thought I'd bring it to the attention of anyone able to fix the link. Jw iridule (talk) 20:03, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
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