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African American drag queen

Image

Unidentified African American drag queen standing in front of the tiled wall outside of the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's wearing a light blue...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Bad lighting and a short skirt

Image

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...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Dancing at the Colony Club

Image

Two unidentified drag queens (one white, one African American) dancing near the tables at the Colony Club (likely) in Kansas City; both are wearing...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Fabulous Flirtations

Image

Publicity photograph of the Flirtations (left to right: Cliff Townsend, Jon Arterton, Jimmy Rutland, Michael Callen, Aurelio Font) hamming it up in...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Friends together

Image

Unidentified African-American drag queen posing for a photo with an unidentified white man at the Colony Club (likely) in Kansas City; she is wearing...

Date Published
October-1967
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

On the phone

Image

Two unidentified men, one an African American and the other white, at the Forest Ballroom (likely) in Kansas City; the white man on the left is...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Participants in the park

Image

Crowd of march participants (largely white people, one shirtless African American man seen at the right of the photo) at the March on Washington for...

Date Published
April-25-1993
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Piratical costumes

Image

Unidentified white man and woman posing together for a photo amid a crowd of patrons at an unidentified nightclub in Kansas City; they are both in red...

Date Published
October-1967
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Posing for a photo

Image

Unidentified African American man posing for a photo with his arm around the waist of an unidentified female impersonator at the Colony Club (likely)...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection
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  • African American gay men
  • LGBTQ+ people

Member of

  • GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection (7)
  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (9)

Genres

  • Color photographs (8)
  • Group portraits (7)
  • Slides (7)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Black & white photographs (1)
  • Film negatives (1)
  • Gelatin silver prints (1)
  • Negatives (1)
  • Publicity photographs (1)
  • Snapshots (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (7)
  • 1981-1990 (1)
  • 1991-2000 (1)

Subjects

  • Gay men (9)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (7)
  • Gay bars (7)
  • African American men (6)
  • Men, White (5)
  • Drag queens (4)
  • Lesbians (2)
  • Tile facades (2)
  • AIDS activists (1)
  • Bisexuals (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Dance (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Earrings (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Halloween costumes (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Parks (1)
  • Pearls (1)
  • Pin-back buttons (1)
  • Pirates (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Sweaters (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Women, White (1)

Subjects, Community

  • African American LGBTQ+ people (8)
  • White LGBTQ+ people (7)
  • White gay men (6)
  • LGBTQ+ events (2)
  • Gay liberation (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (1)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (1)
  • LGBTQ+ demonstrations (1)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (1)
  • White lesbians (1)
  • (-) African American gay men (9)
  • (-) LGBTQ+ people (9)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (7)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • Washington (D.C.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Arterton, Jon (1)
  • Callen, Michael, 1955-1993 (1)
  • Font, Aurelio (1)
  • Rutland, Jimmy (1)
  • Spence, Susan (Photographer) (1)
  • Townsend, Cliff (1)

Events

  • March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation (1993 : Washington, D.C.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1968-11 (5)
  • 1967-10 (2)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1993-04-25 (1)

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