Dancing at the Forest Ballroom

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

Three unidentified white couples slow dancing at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; the couple on the right are two women, one a drag king dressed in a red long sleeved shirt with slicked back blond hair; the middle couple are two men, one being "Dr. Garcia" and the other an unidentified drag queen in a sleeveless black dress; the couple on the left are two women (or possible a woman and a drag queen); a fourth couple, largely unseen, can be made out on the far right of the photo.

Member of

GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Language English

Date Published

1964-12

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Subject, Old

Dancers

Dance

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects

Gay bars

Gay men

Lesbians

Drag kings

Drag queens

Women

White

Men

Image Credit

Jack Ames

Subjects, Community

White lesbians

White gay men

White LGBTQ+ people

LGBTQ+ people

Time Period

1961-1970

Subject (Geographic)

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Notes

December 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-022.tif

Genres

Slides

Color photographs

Group portraits

Type

photographs