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✨In the 60's, my mother who was a straight-up Puritan Amish Prude, & her friends would go to a drag show at The Apollo, in Harlem, called The Jewel Box Revue. They had Such a good time that That was All we'd hear about for Weeks. We would pore over the program & she'd describe the
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performances; the beautiful gowns & costumes; the hairdos; & the singing. And for us little girls in the Bronx, seeing the pictures of these fabulous men, whom it was inconceivable to believe were men... So beautiful... So glamorous... it was utterly fascinating! I couldn't Wait to grow up so that I
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could go to the Apollo & see that Show.
Alas, by the time I was an adult, they were no longer booking appearances at the Apollo. ☹️
*original spout by KJ Hagans
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