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All in black in front of the Colony Club

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Unidentified white drag queen enjoying a cigarette in front of the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's wearing a mid-length black dress with brooch and...

Date Published
February-1961
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Dancing couples

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Unidentified white couples (male/male; male/female (or possible female impersonators) dancing at an unknown Kansas City venue.

Date Published
February-1961
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Pitty Pat

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Lee Lackey (Likely) dressed as a Japanese woman named "Pitty-Pat" in a grey patterned kimono, make up and wig while at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas...

Date Published
February-1961
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection
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  • 1961-02
  • 1961-1970

Member of

  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (3)

Genres

  • Color photographs (3)
  • Slides (3)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Group portraits (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1961-1970 (3)

Subjects

  • Gay bars (3)
  • Gay men (3)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (2)
  • Drag queens (2)
  • Advertising (1)
  • Beer signs (1)
  • Brooches (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Kimonos (1)
  • Lesbians (1)
  • Racism against Asians (1)
  • Racism in popular culture (1)
  • Signs and signboards (1)
  • Women, White (1)

Subjects, Community

  • LGBTQ+ people (3)
  • White gay men (3)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (3)
  • White lesbians (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (3)

Subjects, People

  • Lackey, Lee (1)

Date Published

  • (-) 1961-02 (3)

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