Strange Fruit Fruit (slang)

strange fruit reference lynchings of black people in american south, in reference jazz song popularised billie holiday. fruit of gibbet (used 18th through late 19th centuries) refers hanged man , derives halifax gibbet law under prisoner executed first , guilt or innocence determined afterwards.

the instances of strange fruit being used within lgbt context include 1944 novel depicts lesbianism, kyle schickner s 2004 video, performance artist , ethnographer e. patrick johnson s one-man show (which toured between 1999 , 2004) , others of used name strange fruit , addressed racial issues various lgbt issues.

fruta extraña, spanish strange fruit , spanish , english gay-themed talk show on bronxnet, bronx public access television. eric stephen booth directs show 1 of longest-running programs on bronx public access television - strange fruits, new york times describes 30-minute burst of gender-bending camp , low-budget intrigue flamboyantly irreverent, unabashedly gay , teeming men in high heels , pantyhose. [o]ne of few public displays of homosexuality in blue-collar borough bastion of latin machismo bizarre free-form soap-opera has been aired since 1997 , has multi-racial cast of straight , lgbt actors , considered kind of brilliant mess. show broadcasts on manhattan neighborhood network , queens public television.