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a flock of lovelies, place & date unknown

 

I love collecting photos and memorabilia involving female impersonation and drag artists, especially those whose work made it onto vinyl or CD.

This section is intended to be an Index Page of sorts to help you find where on my site these gems can be found. So visit the Drag Artist Discography and also check out the resources below.

 

Click the graphic above for the large and growing discography section

This next section is for galleries of selected individual female impersonators, where they achieved a certain prominence. The intent is certainly NOT to represent all, and this section does NOT include those with recordings...see the Drag Artist Discography for that.

 

 


   

yes, that's Curly of the Three Stooges

What are the latest additions to my Drag pages?
I add new material so often you may never know unless I pointed it out...

Jan 2010: two more Jewel Box Revue programs, a historic Michelle International program; 36 additional sheet music scans, and a newspaper from the time reviewing the book by Minette: Recollections of a Part-Time Lady

April 2010: two more JBR programs, and added Many clippings to the Sheet Music section

May 2010: 14 pages and 200 scans from Danny Brown Jewel Box scrapbooks, 1934-1944

June 2010: Program for La Cage, Aruba, circa 1999.

July 2010: Finocchio's Program, Charles Pierce flyer, Michelle programs, and more
July 2010: a completely revamped section for individual FI Artists, adding scores of images

 
Clubs & Misc Information

Clubs

Club My-O-My
Club 82, NYC
Wonder Club, New Orleans
Finocchios, San Francisco
Andy's (Newburgh, NY)
Beige Room, SF
Diplomat Revue (Detroit)
Jewel Box Lounge, Kansas City
La Carrousel, Paris
Madame Arthur's, Paris
Chez Nous, Berlin
Crazy Horse, NYC
Carroll Wallace Revue
Club Flamingo, Los Angeles
other clubs

and the Club My-O-My resurrection!

More Female Impersonation Artists:
(not found in the Drag Artist Discography
or Female Impersonation Galleries)

miscellaneous artists, page 1
miscellaneous artists, page 2
miscellaneous artists, page 3
miscellaneous artists, page 4
miscellaneous artists, page 5
miscellaneous artists, page 6
miscellaneous artists, page 7
miscellaneous artists, page 8

Fantasy Follies
Female Impersonation Magazines

Kurt Mann Collection 
Ted Larson Collection 

Revues & Programs
Scrapbooks of Danny Brown, of Jewel Box Revue
Kurt Mann Scrapbook
Kurt Mann was a headliner in the Jewel Box Revue during its last golden years, from 1967 through 1970. He got rave revues for his impressions of Phyllis Diller. I am honored that he shared his story and scrapbook.
Click Here
Sheet Music
Karyl Norman

 

A Special Section on Sheet Music
Featuring Female & Male
Impersonators

Click Here

Julian Eltinge
Matchbooks
Books

Femme Mimics!
Photos from the book "Femme Mimics" by E. Carlton Winford, 1953 
(40's & 50's Female Impersonators)

    

Female Impersonation
By Avery Willard, 1971

A Pictoral History of the Art of
Female Impersonation

By Chris Shaw & Arthur Oates, London, 1966

Minette
Recollections of a Part-Time Lady
1979, 66 pages

 

Transvestism Today
Edward Podolsky & C. Wade
1960

And, Miscellaneous...


clever drag queen names                    just plain miscellaneous

QMH Shows
Links

Other excellent sources of Drag information:

Dragstravaganza

Ray Bourbon

and also the following:

David De Alba site 

a couple pics...

Jewel Box Revue, guess which one's the RG

equal time? hardly, but here are some drag "kings" from Paris, circa 1963

And Click Here for more Paris "Drag Kings"

 

I Recommend

 

"An Evening At The Garden Of Allah: A Gay Cabaret In Seattle"
By Don Paulson with Roger Simpson, 1996
a superbly researched and written book, at least I think so