Candid moment around the tables at the Forest Ballroom

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

Group of at least six people, including four white drag queens, largely unidentified except for "Dr. Garcia" on the far left in a green checked jacket and holding a cigarette and Helen Frazier in a blue pants and dress coat, a bow in her red hair, facing Dr. Garcia. All are seated around two tables talking, smoking, and drinking; none looking directly at the camera.

Member of

GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Language English

Date Published

1964

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Subject, Old

Drag queens

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects

Gay bars

Gay men

Lesbians

Conversation

Drinking of alcoholic beverages

Smoking

Men

White

Women

Image Credit

Jack Ames

Subjects, Community

White gay men

White lesbians

White LGBTQ+ people

LGBTQ+ people

Time Period

1961-1970

Subject (Geographic)

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Notes

No date; likely sometime in 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)

Filename

umkc_lsc_glama_boles_photo-033.tif

Genres

Slides

Color photographs

Group portraits

Type

photographs