Drag Me Philly!: In the archives

Written By Joey Leroux

In 2023, Beyond the Bell Tours began developing the Drag Me Philly! tour to highlight excerpts of oral history interviews from Drag Arts Oral History Project with archival information from the William Way LGBTQ Community Center on a tour of the Gayborhood.

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Co-founder of Beyond the Bell Tours loves visiting the archive.

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Her favorite find were these cigars that were handed out at the first even Drag King Contest in Philadelphia in 1995.

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These archival visits in 2023 were made possible by The Lepage Center at Villanova University.

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