Diamond Lil
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta's Unspoken Past oral history transcriptions
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS994
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection is comprised of eleven interviews, transcript of each interview (edited and unedited), original audio recordings for each interview, and a CD access copy of each. The interviews with Billy Jones and Ginny Boyd are part of the Maria Helena Dolan collection (1999.142)
Dates:
1997, 2004-2005
Martin Padgett visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS416
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials used by Martin Padgett in research for his book A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution. Items include photos of staff and drag performers, primarily John Greenwell (1950- ) as Rachel Wells, at Sweet Gum Head, a prominent drag and gay bar at 2284 Cheshire Bridge Rd. NE, Atlanta, Georgia, from 1971 to 1981; a poster promoting the Phoenix Affair II, a charity show...
Dates:
1972-1983
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- Subject: Atlanta (Ga.) X
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- African Americans -- Segregation 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
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- Cheshire Bridge Road (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Civil rights 1
- Drag kings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Drag queens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Drag shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Florida 1
- Gay bars -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Gay community -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 1
- Gay men -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Social conditions 1
- Lesbians -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History 1
- Lesbians -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Social conditions 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- Race relations 1
- Religion 1
- Savannah (Ga.) 1
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