More from the book Gay New York
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indeedsir_backupA report from members of The Committee of Fourteen - an anti-prostitution group of private citizens.
"February 24, 1928 - Commercialized Amusement - Manhattan Casino, 8th Av & 155th St.
About 12:30 a.m. we visited this place and found approximately 5,000 people, colored and white, men attired in women's clothes, and vice versa. The affair, we were informed, was a "Fag (Fairy)/Masquerade Ball." This is an annual affair where the white and colored fairies assemble together with their friends, this being attended also by a certain respectable element who go here to see the sights.
While here, remaining about three-quarters of an hour, a certain amount of intoxication was observed... There was also a large number of uniformed patrolmen seen both outside, and in the hall proper as well as plainclothesmen..."
They couldn't find women prostitutes and so left.
"February 24, 1928 - Commercialized Amusement - Manhattan Casino, 8th Av & 155th St.
About 12:30 a.m. we visited this place and found approximately 5,000 people, colored and white, men attired in women's clothes, and vice versa. The affair, we were informed, was a "Fag (Fairy)/Masquerade Ball." This is an annual affair where the white and colored fairies assemble together with their friends, this being attended also by a certain respectable element who go here to see the sights.
While here, remaining about three-quarters of an hour, a certain amount of intoxication was observed... There was also a large number of uniformed patrolmen seen both outside, and in the hall proper as well as plainclothesmen..."
They couldn't find women prostitutes and so left.
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