Big night out at the Colony Club

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

Two unidentified white drag queens posing side by side for a photo against the tile wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City; the one on the right is wearing a short, ill-fitting yellow-gold calico dress with a large white cardigan, white gloves, pink shirt with black ribbon and a blue wig; the one on the left is wearing a dark green and black evening gown with large costume jewelry earrings, white gloves, white shoes, white purse, and brown fur (or faux fur) stole; both are facing the camera.

Member of

GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Language English

Date Published

1965-11

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Subject, Old

Drag queens

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects

Gay bars

Gay men

Men

White

Tile facades

Calico

Costume jewelry

Sweaters

Handbags

Stoles (Clothing)

Fur garments

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

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)

Filename

umkc_lsc_glama_boles_photo-052.tif

Genres

Slides

Color photographs

Group portraits

Type

photographs