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Members of Roy Cowl's "Queeries" pose for a group portrait in Llandudno. Photographic postcard, 1930.

Roy Cowl's "Queeries" Happy Valley. Llandudno. 1930

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Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.

The ten actors are sitting and standing in a line. Not all seaside concert parties incorporated drag into their acts. But there was certainly an essence of camp fun common to all of them, sometimes accentuated by the names that they bore, as in this case, the 'Queeries'. The word queer in the context of homosexual would have already been in use by a minority, if not in common usage (James Gardiner)

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Identifier
qv33rw93b
Collection
James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution
Wellcome Library
Date Issued
Jan. 1, 1930
Genre
Photographs
Prints
Topic(s)
Female impersonators
Resource Type
Still Image
Analog Format
1 photograph : photoprint ;
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