Bad lighting and a short skirt

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

Two unidentified African American drag queens posing in bad lighting at an unidentified venue in Kansas City; the one on the right is wearing a blonde wig and the one on the left is wearing a very short metallic pink dress and is cocking one leg and has one hand to her hair.

Member of

GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Language English

Date Published

1968-11

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Subject, Old

Drag queens

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects

Gay bars

Gay men

African American men

Image Credit

Jack Ames

Subjects, Community

African American gay men

African American LGBTQ+ people

LGBTQ+ people

Time Period

1961-1970

Subject (Geographic)

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Notes

November 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-087.tif

Genres

Slides

Color photographs

Group portraits

Type

photographs