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Bikini in November

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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.
Photographer
Ames, Jack
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection
Publisher
Jack Ames
Date Published
November-1965
Time Periods
1961-1970
Subjects
Drag queens
Gay bars
Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects
Gay men
Men, White
Tile facades
Bikinis
Boots
Gloves
Subjects, Community
White gay men
White LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ people
Subjects, Geographic
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Subjects, People
Green, Bobby
Corporate Name
Colony Club (Nightclub)
Tags
Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America
Genres
Slides
Color photographs
Portrait photographs
Types
photographs
Notes

November 1965

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Source File
umkc_lsc_glama_boles_photo-054.tif
Extent Of Original
1 photograph : color transparencies ; 35 mm (slide format)
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
Rights
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections for more information.

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