Bikini in November

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

A white drag queen, possibly Bobby Green, posing in front of the tiled wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's wearing a leopard print bikini (with the bottom part put on over a pair of very short black shorts) with matching fingerless gloves, textured black nylons, and black boots; she has one hand in her hair and the other on her hip.

Member of

GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Language English

Date Published

1965-11

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Subject, Old

Drag queens

Gay bars

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects

Gay men

Men

White

Tile facades

Bikinis

Boots

Gloves

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-054.tif

Genres

Slides

Color photographs

Portrait photographs

Type

photographs