The story
The Midwest's legendary drag capital where performers drew anthropologist Esther Newton to study them.
Everything that was here
- 1958–1982
Jewel Box LoungeNightclub
The Midwest's legendary drag capital where performers drew anthropologist Esther Newton to study them.
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