New York City drag and trans event ephemera
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Abstract
A collection of cards, flyers, and other ephemera from drag events in New York City from 2007 to 2018.
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Items are organized by performer or event name.
Scope and Contents
This collection of ephemera documents drag events in New York City between 2007 and 2018. The bulk of the collection consists of publicity cards for drag performances at theaters and nightclubs. Some of the artists represented include Lady Bunny, Bianca Del Rio, Murray Hill, Joey Arias, Hedda Lettuce, Mimi Imfurst, Crimson Kitty, Reverend Yolanda, Flawless Sabrina, Sweetie, Justin Bond, Peppermint, Jacqueline Jonée, Jackie Beat, Taylor Mac, Lypsinka, and others. It also includes publicity cards for public health campaigns including free HIV testing, HIV vaccine studies, acceptance of trans people, and voting for candidates who support LGBTQ+ rights. See the folder inventory for a full list of contents.
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Access Restrictions
Materials in this collection may be stored offsite. For more information on making arrangements to consult them, please visit www.nyhistory.org/library/visit.
Use Restrictions
Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New York Historical, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org.
Preferred Citation
The collection should be cited as: New York City Drag and Trans Event Ephemera, PM 5, The New York Historical.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased at auction, Swann Auction Galleries, August 2023. Items originally collected by Joe E. Jeffreys.
About this Guide
Processing Information
Items were removed from a three-ring binder, interleaved with acid-free paper, and housed in archival folders.
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Lady Bunny, Bianca Del Rio, Holly Woodlawn, 2011-2013, inclusive
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Gay Men's Health Crisis card advertising free HIV testing, featuring Lady Bunny photograph by Billy Erb, undated
Card for Rockit Fridays at Crimson, "DJ Lady Bunny returns to Rockit", Friday, November 4, no year
Flyer for "New York City's Largest Drag Show, Bunny & Bianca in Hot Mess" at the XL Cabaret, undated
Card for Glamour Ball: An Evening of Lips, Tits & Lashes, hosted by Murray Hill and Bianca Del Rio at Le Poisson Rouge, Friday, May 20, [2011]
Card for The Holly Woodlawn Show, Laurie Beechman Theatre, Friday, May 17, [2013] (Courtney Act advertisment on verso)
Murray Hill, Dred, Joey Arias, 2009-2014, inclusive
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Card for A Murray Little Christmas, Le Poisson Rouge, December 18, [2010]
Card for Murray Hill One Night Only at Comix, Thursday, June 25, no year
Card for Dred: When She Was King, Temple M, Friday, July 24, 2009
Card for Joey Arias Live at Town Hall!, April 21, [2011]
Card for Joey Arias in Concert, Abrons Arts Center, October 1, 2, 8, and 9, [2010]
Card for Arias with a Twist, Abrons Arts Center, September 14-October 16, 2011
Card for Christmas with the Crawfords starring Joey Arias & Chris March, Abrons Arts Center, December 10-27, [2014]
Hedda Lettuce, Tommy Femia and Rick Skye, Mimi Imfurst and Lavinia Co-op, Night of a Thousand Gowns, Lady Queen!/Crimson Kitty, Reverend Yolanda, 2009-2015, inclusive
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Card for Lettuce Rejoice featuring Hedda Lettuce, Metropolitan Room, December 16, 19, 22, 23, and 26, no year
Card for Tommy Femia and Rick Skye in Judy and Liza Together Again, Don't Tell Mama, September 21 and 28, October 5 and 19, no year
Card for The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, a new play by Ilya Sapiroe featuring Mimi Imfurst and Lavinia Co-op, 13th Street Rep Theatre, October 1-November 8, [2009]
Card for Night of a Thousand Gowns, March 21, 2009
Card for Night of a Thousand Gowns, March 27, 2010
Card for Lady Queen! A Femme Dragstravaganza, hosted by Crimson Kitty, Friday, August 7, 2015
Card for Rev. Yolanda's Old Time Gospel Hour, undated
Sharon Needles, Flawless Sabrina, Sweetie, 2012-2014, inclusive
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Card for Sharon Needles, The Reaping: Dance Until You Die, XL Nightclub, Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Card for A Flawless Evening, "In conversation with gender activist and phenomenon Flawless Sabrina", NYU Tisch School for the Arts, November 14, [2014]
Flyer for Flawless Sabrina Archive, a Kickstarter project, undated
Flyer for Sweetie's Riot @ Stonewall, April 24, no year
Flyer for Sweetie's Riot @ Stonewall, May 1, no year
Justin Bond, Leee Black Childers, Our Lady J, 2008-2012, inclusive
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Card for Justin Bond's Lustre: A Summer Solstice Trans-Pervasion, Abrons Arts Center, Wednesday, June 26-Saturday, June 28, [2008]
Card for Cold Water, curated by Justin Bond and Hilton Als at La Mama La Galleria, November 7-December 6, 2009
Card for La Mama Presents Jukebox Jackie: Snatches of Jackie Curtis (featuring Justin Bond), La Mama, May 24-June 10, 2012
Card for Leee Black Childers photography show, "Gotta Cigarette?": Drag Queens and Rent Boys, closing reception Thursday, November 19, no year, Subdivision Art
Card for The Gospel of Our Lady J: A Summer Revival, The Zipper Factory, June 18, July 23, and August 27, [2008]
Peppermint, Amanda Lepore, Jacqueline Jonée, 2009-2018, inclusive
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Card for for Head Over Heels: A New Musical (featuring Peppermint), Hudson Theatre, [2018]
Card: "Peppermint wants you!! To volunteer for an HIV vaccine study", Project Achieve and HIV Prevention & Treatment Research, Columbia University Medical Center, undated
Card for Amanda Lepore's Big Top, CARNIVALNYC, undated
Card for Liberté, Égalité, Jacqueline Jonée in Concert, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Thursday, June 26, [2008]
Card for Jacqueline Jonée in a Date with Liberace, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Thursday, June 25, 2009
Bebe Zahara Benet, Jackie Beat, The Queens of Drag NYC, Miss Coco Peru, 2010-2012, inclusive
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Card for Bebe Zahara Benet's Creature: The Live Concert, XL Cabaret, Fridays in July starting July 13, [2012]
Card for events at The Gramercy Theater, including Joan Rivers Live, Jackie Beat Without Me You're Nothing, Dixie's Tupperware Party, and Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words, June [2009]
Card for Jackie Beat in Fear of Intimacy, The Cutting Room, Saturday, October 20 and Sunday, October 21, [2007] (with an advertisement for Karen Finley Wake Up! on the verso)
Card for series The Queens of Drag NYC, premiering September 8, [2010] on gay.com
Card for Miss Coco Peru Is Still Alive, Laurie Beechman Theatre, Friday-Sunday, November 5-14, [2010] (with an advertisement for Boylesque on the verso)
Linda Simpson, Big Apple Circus, Look Past Pink and Blue, Taylor Mac, 2007-2011, inclusive
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Card for The Bad Hostess (with an image of Linda Simpson), La Mama, Friday-Sunday, December 5-7 and 12-14, [2010]
Flyer for The Big Apple Circus, "Dance On!", Lincoln Center, October 21-January 9, [2011]
Flyer from the NYC Commission on Human Rights, "Look Past Pink and Blue. Use the Restroom Consistent with Who You Are." [between 2014 and 2018]
Card for Taylor Mac's The Young Ladies Of..., HERE Arts Center, September 26-October 19, [2007]
Card for The Young Ladies Of... and The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, HERE Arts Center, July 8-August 2, [2008]
Card for Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge, HERE Arts Center, October 29-November 22, [2009]
Charles Busch, Lypsinka, Lips, Lucky Cheng's, Manhattan Mini Storage ad, Vote, it's not a drag sticker, 2007-2015, inclusive
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Card for Die Mommie Die! (featuring Charles Busch), New World Stages, October 10, [2007]
Card for Legends! with Charles Busch, Whoopi Goldberg, and Lypsinka, Town Hall, March 23, 2009
Card for Lypsinka! The Trilogy, The Connelly Theater, November 5, 2014-January 3, 2015
Card for Lips, inviting recipients to join the mailing list to get two free cosmos
Flyer for Lucky Cheng's, "The Drag Queen Capital of the World", 240 W. 52nd Street
Business card for Lucky Cheng's
Manhattan Mini Storage postcard featuring a drag queen in partial costume, at a dressing table and next to a rack of clothes with text, "I like my wife and kids, but I love my storage room"
Sticker with an image of a woman in profile and an inverted pink triangle with text, "Vote: it's not a drag"