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Conversation at the Forest Ballroom

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Two unidentified white drag queens holding Styrofoam cups and talking at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; the person on the right is seated and wearing a gold dress with black trim with matching high heel shoes and the other is standing in front of her wearing a black dress with her left hand lightly touching the seated person's leg; she also has a tattoo on her forearm.
Date Published
1964
Publisher
Jack Ames
Subjects
Drag queens
Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects
Gay bars
Gay men
Conversation
Tattooed people
Tattooing
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Men, White
Subjects, Community
White gay men
White LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ people
Time Periods
1961-1970
Subjects, Geographic
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Notes

No date; likely sometime in 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)
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection
Source File
umkc_lsc_glama_boles_photo-036.tif
Genres
Slides
Color photographs
Group portraits
Types
photographs
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
Rights
Copyright Not Evaluated
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 at specialcollections@umkc.edu for more information.
Rights
Copyright Not Evaluated
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 at specialcollections@umkc.edu for more information.

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