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

Date:
1930
Reference:
2045169i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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Members of Roy Cowl's "Queeries" pose for a group portrait in Llandudno. Photographic postcard, 1930. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph of ten actors posing together in a line in matching white outfits, the five women kneeling and the five men standing with their hands on the women's shoulders.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1930.

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 9 x 13.9 cm

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Lettering

Roy Cowl's "Queeries" Happy Valley. Llandudno. 1930 Lettering printed in black on recto.

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "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."
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Wellcome Collection 2045169i

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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