Gean Harwood

Gean Harwood and Bruhs Mero were also known as The Oldest Homosexual Couple in the us, and actually this is the title of Harwood’s autobiography of his lifestyle as well as Mero, who died from Alzheimer’s disease in 1995. L. Eugene Harwood was created in Auburn, NY, and discovered to be always a musician there, however the relatively inhospitable environment for gays within an Upstate NY city like Auburn led him to NEW YORK, where he fulfilled Mero at a celebration in 1929, and both men shortly became companions in both lifestyle and music, staying jointly over many years to check out. Harwood and Mero had written their first structure (greater than 50 total), “Arrive and Consider My Hands,” in 1930. The companions had been profiled in the documentary movies Silent Pioneers as well as the 1993 Academy Award-nominated For good or for bad, as well as the musical Bruhs and Gean chronicles their romance. Through the 2000s Harwood continued to be energetic in both music (still playing the piano well into his nineties) and homosexual activism (through involvement in SAGE: Mature Action within a Homosexual Environment).