Matchcovers of female impersonators from probably the 60's & 70's are from my collection. The Torch Club, the Jewel Box Lounge, and especially Finocchio's were famous drag clubs..
For more Finocchio's memorabilia, click here.

Irving Kaufman (center), who also recorded under many names, including Frank Harris, at the Okeh Recording Studio in 1927

Minette
(hold cursor over LP
to see back side)

Above, Diamond Lil LP "Listen Listen," from New Zealand, 1976, Below, Effie Dropbottom's 1968 "Tells It Like It Is" album

Artist Links:
Lisa Jackson
Georgie Jessup
Yolanda

Above, Lisa Jackson, and below, her first release, a 4-song EP, 2002. Lisa's a straight cross-dresser. Color photo above by Ed Mannix.

The many faces of Yolanda

Above, a pretty-in-pink photo
by Ed Mannix, Summer 2002

Playlist:  (airdate 10/28/02)
Dirdy Birdies Jug Band - masculine
   women, feminine men (2001)
Frank Harris - masculine women,
   feminine men (1926)
Bill Amesbury - a thrill's a thrill (1976)
Minette-LBJ, don't take my man
   away (1968)
Ty Bennett - excerpt from "Queen
   For A Day" (early 1960's)
Diamond Lil - excerpt from "Listen,
   Listen" (1976)
Effie Dropbottom - excerpt from
   "Tells It Like It Is" (1968)
Liz Lyons - from "Up Your Ass" (1975)
Georgie Jessup - post-op freeway    (2000)
Georgie Jessup - drag city (2002)
Lisa Jackson - fabulously done (2002)

Yolanda Interview (at 38:00)
Yolanda - right to surrender (1999)
Yolanda - freedom (2002)

Bill Amesbury on his 1976 album cover "Can You Feel It." He later became Barbara Amesbury.

Ty Bennett, above, from "Gay International," from Toronto, 1965. An article in it mentioned her next LP, "Ty One On With Ty" was due shortly. As far as I know, that never happened.
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Ty Bennett

Above and below, the Liz Lyons album, and left, as she performed as Lee Leonard in the 1940s. Click HERE to see a Very rare photo of her, as Lee Leonard.

Above, Yolanda performing at Sun Music Company, June 7, 2002