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Looking fabulous at the Colony Club

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LaBudde Special Collections
Two unidentified white drag queens posing for a photo together by the tile wall out side the Colony Club in Kansas City; the one on the left is wearing a black dress and holding a black clutch and the other is wearing a stunning blue and gold full length evening dress with matching blue gloves and a platinum blonde wig; both are turned toward each other with the woman on the left looking at the camera and laughing and the one on the right looking a bit over her shoulder to the right.
Date Note
November 1965
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection
Image Credit
Jack Ames
Date Published
11-1965
Time Period
1961-1970
Filename
umkc_lsc_glama_boles_photo-050.tif
Notes

November 1965, 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 gay men
White LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ people
English
Rights
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections for more information.

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