In costume at the Forest Ballroom

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

Two unidentified white drag queens in black costumes (one a cat woman with a cigarette in hand and the other wearing a dress, black cape and some sort of black hat); posed to the left with heads turned forward to the camera against a pink wall at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; poster advertising a Thanksgiving dance by "Cassie Martinez' Latin-American Band" is on the wall on the right.

Member of

GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Language English

Date Published

1964-11

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Subject, Old

Drag queens

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects

Gay bars

Gay men

Men

White

Halloween costumes

Advertising

Image Credit

Jack Ames

Subjects, Community

White gay men

White LGBTQ+ people

LGBTQ+ people

LGBTQ+ events

Time Period

1961-1970

Subject (Geographic)

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Notes

November 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-013.tif

Genres

Slides

Color photographs

Group portraits

Type

photographs