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Drag Queens & Crossdressers of Buffalo Gallery - Page 1

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All the crossdrssers & drag queens in this gallery are 21 or over & I've met them. So if you must call the authorities again because you think someone here isn't old enough, or the pix aren't legal, go ahead, & they'll investigate you for being a nut case!

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Betty Pearl

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BUFFALO SHOWS & DRAG QUEENS

Buffalo has a few of the best shows produced for the local Bars and Clubs. Currently they include Roxy's bar - "StripTeasers" on Thursday nights. It is described as a Burlesque type show with an all female cast, with a few Drag Guests and always a few surprises. Underground bar produces a drag show called the Underground Diva's every Tuesday night, a classy fun evening. Buddies II bar has the infamous Trailer Trash Tuesdays, wild and funny. Club Marcella is the queen of the drag clubs with shows on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday and a spotlight Friday night show.

Buffalo Drag Queen history

At Ralph's, the stars of the evening were the drag queens. Taking their inspiration from the Cotton Club and the Busby Berkley musicals, Ralph Martin's drag queens were over the top. No second-hand clothes for these girls, they made their fabulous costumes from scratch, including the giant headdresses that became their trademark.

Every Saturday night Duisenbergs, Lincolns, Packards, and other luxury cars would negotiate the corner of Seneca and Ellicott, then come to a dramatic stop. The car doors would slowly open and out would step the flamboyantly attired queens. For special events, searchlights would streak into the night sky. Crowds of straight people would congregate on the sidewalks to watch and cheer the ongoing spectacle.

Inside the bar it was an evening of grand entrances. Each diva had her own supporters. Dishing contests kept the crowds in stitches. Every night at Ralph's was a night to remember. If you couldn't make it to the bar, you begged your friends the next morning to tell you every last detail.

The Red Spot came onto the scene when Buffalo's gays were overdue for a new place to go. The original Villa Capri, Big Daddy's, and Stage Pigalle had all run their course, with Mean Alice's, the second Villa Capri, & the Westlakes (I & II) yet to come. Surely folks would be willing to drive 10 miles to Lackawanna. It was a field trip! Both gays and lesbians made the pilgrimage to the Red Spot.

Perhaps unconscientiously-knowing that they were on borrowed time, Buffalo's gays and lesbians made the most of it, turning the Red Spot into one of the most fondly-remembered bars of all. It's rare to find anyone with a bad word to say. A fabulous dance floor, outrageous drag shows, great bartenders, and a rarely-achieved congeniality amongst the patrons left everyone with glowing memories of the Red Spot.

Surrounded by a social class that disapproved of gays, the Red Spot was pushing its luck. One warm evening three months after it opened, the bar stools filled with customers, a bullet shattered through the front window. Luckily no one was injured, but the Red Spot was dead. The steel mills left town and the site of this hate-crime is now an empty lot. The shooter was never found.

A country-western bar before it turned gay, T&T's had a huge back room which originally hosted square dances. This bar could accommodate more patrons than any other Buffalo gay bar in the 1960's.

The owner built a stage and runway for some of the best drag shows Buffalo has ever seen. The principal drag queens at that time collectively called themselves The Buffalo Funny Girls. Such honored names as Gary Anderson, Jimmy Bates, Lenny Castelone, Sammy Fiorello, Paul Jablonski, Larry Paulson, Bill Schroeder, and Guy Vullo are still fondly remembered.

Even though business was good, the owner always seemed to be short of cash. In spite of that, the bar regularly held drag contests with cash prizes in the hundreds of dollars for the winner. A persistent rumor was that the contests were rigged and only drag queens who secretly agreed to return the prize money ever won. The rumor was never proved.

The Tiki was located diagonally across Tupper Street from Laughlin's (a cruisey straight bar in those days) and functioned as a neighborhood tavern for the Allentown gay crowd in the late 1960's.

The Tiki had two rooms and two entrances. If you entered from Franklin Street you came into the actual bar. If you entered from Tupper you were in the dining room, which also served as a dance floor and a drag-show stage.

One of the Tiki's most memorable events was "Bruce Brown's Birthday Party." Bruce was a well-to-do Buffalonian who threw himself a lavish birthday party at the Tiki on the same night in 1969 that the Astronauts first landed on the moon. Throughout the warm summer evening, drag queens huddled around black-and-white TV's watching the blurry pictures being beamed to earth. Outside the bar, cars on Franklin and Tupper Streets honked their horns in celebration. People everywhere were in a joyous mood and the open bar serving Bruce's party just couldn't keep up. The sun had already risen when the last revelers staggered out the door. Gays talked about the party for months.