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Dancing at the Forest Ballroom

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LaBudde Special Collections
Three unidentified white couples slow dancing at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; the couple on the right are two women, one a drag king dressed in a red long sleeved shirt with slicked back blond hair; the middle couple are two men, one being "Dr. Garcia" and the other an unidentified drag queen in a sleeveless black dress; the couple on the left are two women (or possible a woman and a drag queen); a fourth couple, largely unseen, can be made out on the far right of the photo.
Date Note
December 1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection
Image Credit
Jack Ames
Date Published
12-1964
Time Period
1961-1970
Filename
umkc_lsc_glama_boles_photo-022.tif
Notes

December 1964, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
1 photograph : color transparencies ; 35 mm (slide format)
Genres
Slides
Color photographs
Group portraits
Type
photographs
Subject (Geographic)
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Subjects, Community
White lesbians
White gay men
White LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ people
English

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