“True to Their Nature: The Lives of Sweet Evening Breeze and Henry Faulkner” is a 45-minute presentation by Dr. Jonathan Coleman, Co-Founder of Faulkner-Morgan Archive. Reception to follow. The event is a benefit for Moveable Feast Lexington.

In 1955, history was happening in a small, unassuming house on Prall Street. One Lexington outsider, already notorious for her “womanless weddings” and “passion dances,” took in a penniless young man from Eastern Kentucky who had little more to his name than a paintbox and a limitless imagination. Their names were Sweet Evening Breeze and Henry Lawrence Faulkner, and Lexington, Kentucky would never be the same.

Though well-known, Sweets and Henry retain a veil of mystery, with rumors still swirling about their flamboyant and unusual lives thirty years after their deaths. By looking at the year both lived together in Sweet’s house on Prall Street, Dr. Coleman explores the world these two gay icons experienced—and how they changed it—by simply being themselves.