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  1. Blue Dahlia handbill

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1967
    Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ comedians, Nightlife, Strippers
    Description: A handbill advertising performances at the Blue Dahlia, a Chicago nightclub. The venue specialized in female impersonators, some of whom performed as strippers and comedians.

  2. Blue Dahlia handbill

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1967
    Topics: Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ comedians, Nightlife, Strippers
    Subject: Blue Dahlia Show Lounge, Fat Jack, Frank Levine, Gayle Sherman, Hillmar, Kim Knoules, Kismet, Little Lil, Mark Vickers, Michelle, Romie Blu, Timmy McKay, Tony Delray
    Description: A handbill advertising performances at the Blue Dahlia, a Chicago nightclub. The venue specialized in female impersonators, some of whom performed as strippers and comedians.

  3. Crossing borders: at Esta Noche, it's always midnight on the border of Latin illusions.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Lizarraga, Willy
    Date: Jul. 8, 1998
    Topics: Drag queens, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Nightlife
    Subject: Esta Noche
    Description: It's a news clipping for nightlife's. A Latino gay bar on 16th Street in the Mission District of San Francisco. It's described as "the Finocchio's of the Mission" - the only Latino gay club in the ...

  4. Girlfriend!, 1993

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Autumn 1993
    Topics: LGBTQ+ theater, Nightlife
    Description: This 1993 Fall edition of Girlfriend! contains several articles and stories of drag queens. Entries portray an update in nightlife, an interview with RuPaul, and theater.

  5. Maria Montez 1971: The Latin Lovely From The Blue Dahila

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Winter 1971
    Topics: Female impersonators, Nightlife
    Subject: Maria Montez
    Description: 1971 flyer of Maria Montez promoting her showtimes at the Blue Dahlia show club.

  6. Sister!

     
    Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Simpson, Les
    Date: 1992
    Topics: Drag, Erotica, Gay culture, Gay men, Kinks and fetishes, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, Nightclubs, Nightlife, Sex work, Strippers, Transgender people
    Description: The Summer 1992 edition of the periodical Sister/My Comrade. Contains multiple selections of queer photoshoots, features of queer artists and their work, celebrity gossip, current events, and news ...