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108: What a Drag, Ball Culture & Modern Drag
108: What a Drag, Ball Culture & Modern Drag
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jul 15, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
“Strangest and gaudiest of all Harlem spectacles in the ’20s, and still the strangest and gaudiest, is the annual Hamilton Club Lodge Ball at Rockland Palace Casino. I once attended as a guest of A’Lelia Walker. It is the ball where men dress as women and women dress as men… it was fashionable for the intelligentsia and social leaders of both Harlem and the downtown area to occupy boxes at this ball and look down from above at the queerly assorted throng on the dancing floor, males in flowing gowns and feathered headdresses and females in tuxedoes and box-back suits.”
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Released:
Jul 15, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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