Golden at the Colony Club

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

Unidentified white drag queen flamboyantly posing for a photo in front of the tiled wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's wearing a gold colored, full length evening gown with green cloth belt, black feather boa, gold clutch, opera gloves, and holding a long cigarette; her body's facing left with her head turned to the front to face the camera with a serious expression on her face.

Member of

GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Language English

Date Published

1968-10

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Subject, Old

Drag queens

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects

Gay bars

Gay men

Men

White

Tile facades

Smoking

Cigarettes

Gloves

Handbags

Image Credit

Jack Ames

Subjects, Community

White gay men

White LGBTQ+ people

LGBTQ+ people

Time Period

1961-1970

Subject (Geographic)

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Notes

October 1968, 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-082.tif

Genres

Slides

Color photographs

Portrait photographs

Type

photographs