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  1. Billie Ert's Wedding

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1972
    Topics: Drag queens, Gender identity, Same-sex marriage
    Subject: Billie Ert
    Description: An image of Billie Ert at his wedding on October 5, 1972. The wedding was the first same-sex wedding in Texas but was later voided by the Texas Attorney General. For most of his life, Ert identifie...

  2. Christine Jorgensen with Drag Queen Divine

     
    Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Feb. 18, 1981
    Topics: Discos, Drag queens, Night life, Parties, Photography, Trans women, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Divine, Limelight Disco
    Description: Christine Jorgensen, wearing a fur coat, poses with American actor and drag queen Divine at the first annual party of the Limelight disco in Atlanta, GA.

  3. Double Portrait of Bobby Lake, in and out of Drag

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1960 to 1969
    Topics: Dancers, Drag queens
    Subject: Bobby Lake

  4. Drag Queen and Man Sitting at a Table (December 1964)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1964
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Parties
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  5. Drag Queen at The Colony (November 1968)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 1968
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Evening gowns, Parties
    Subject: The Colony
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  6. Four Drag Queens Outside The Colony (1959)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1959
    Topics: Dance, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Evening gowns
    Subject: The Colony
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  7. G.G. Allen Posing at Kansas City Jewel Box Revue with Others (1959)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1959
    Topics: Drag queens, Drag shows
    Subject: G.G. Allen, Jewel Box Revue

  8. HBO Documentary Reveals People in Grip of Gender-Bender Crises

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Aberdeen Daily News
    Date: Apr. 18, 1985
    Topics: Acceptance, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Drag queens, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Psychiatry, Television, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Lee Grant, Norman Fisk, Paul A. Walker, What Sex Am I?

  9. Les Girls

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 3, 1978
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ events
    Description: Members of Les Girls performing in the streets of Sydney, Australia - 1978.

  10. Portrait of Frenchy

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens
    Description: "Crossdresser/drag queen 'Frenchy,' a photo reportedly from Hamburg, Germany in 1960."

  11. Robbie Ross (1960)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1960
    Topics: Drag queens, Entertainers, Female impersonators
    Subject: G.G. Allen, Jewel Box Revue, Robbie Ross
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  12. Skip Arnold with Esther Newton (1966)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1966
    Topics: Drag, Drag queens, Entertainers, Writers
    Subject: Esther Newton, Skip Arnold
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  13. The Performers of Le Carrousel

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1960 to 1964
    Topics: Drag bars, Drag queens, Transgender people
    Subject: April Ashley, Le Carrousel
    Description: An image of performers from Le Carrousel, a club that opened as a cabaret in Paris in 1926, and was known for its drag queen performers. The clubs performers included transgender women such as Apri...

  14. Two Drag Queens Kneeling on the Dance Floor (December 1964)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1964
    Topics: Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Parties
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

  15. Unknown Drag Queen at Drag Ball (1958)

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: 1958
    Topics: Dance, Drag, Drag balls, Drag queens, Evening gowns, Parties
    Description: These photos are a part of Private Birthday Party, a collection of found photographic slides that depict Kansas City’s drag culture throughout the 1950s and 1960s.