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Title: Closet Ball recordings
Dates: 1984-1986
Collection Number: 2023-11
Creator/Collector:
Carter, Carter
Robert Michael Productions
Extent: .5 linear feet (one half manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The collection includes 4 Beta tapes and 1 audiocassette tape of the San Francisco Closet Ball. Tape labels include: Closet
Ball 1985; Edited Version CB 85 and 84; Closet Ball 1986 (in original Robert Michael Productions sleeve); and Closet Ball
Tony Jeff Hershall Tape. The audiocassette is labeled Closet Ball Party October 1984. The tapes were created by Carter Carter,
who participated in the Closet Ball, and Robert Michael Productions. The Closet Ball was a long-running drag event hosted
in San Francisco, California.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. Some published material may remain under copyright.
All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT
Historical Society Archivist.
[Identification of item]. Closet Ball recordings . Collection Number: 2023-11. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Adair Roberts, February 2023.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes 4 Beta tapes and 1 audiocassette tape of the San Francisco Closet Ball. Tape labels include: Closet
Ball 1985; Edited Version CB 85 and 84; Closet Ball 1986 (in original Robert Michael Productions sleeve); and Closet Ball
Tony Jeff Hershall Tape. The audiocassette is labeled Closet Ball Party October 1984. The tapes were created by Carter Carter
(died 1995), who participated in the Closet Ball, and Robert Michael Productions. The Closet Ball was a long-running drag
event hosted in San Francisco, California. Started in 1973, the Closet Ball was billed as “San Francisco’s Most Outrageous
Coming Out Party!,” and the event raised funds for a variety of organizations. The ball was a competition for first-time drag
queens. Contestants would initially appear in their masculine attire, and then they would get into drag for the first time,
with the assistance of more experienced queens.
Drag
LGBTQ
Gay men
Motion pictures
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)