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Performer at the Jewel Box Lounge

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Unidentified white drag queen with outstretched arms in front of a microphone on stage at the Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City; she's wearing a black...

Date Published
November-1959
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection
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  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection
  • Laughter

Member of

  • (-) GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (1)

Genres

  • Color photographs (1)
  • Portrait photographs (1)
  • Slides (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • Audiences (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (1)
  • Drag queens (1)
  • Drag shows (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Gay bars (1)
  • Gay men (1)
  • Men, White (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • (-) Laughter (1)

Subjects, Community

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

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (1)

Date Published

  • 1959-11 (1)

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