Cuban Transformistas

Cuban transformistas, drag performers, getting ready at Fort Chaffee (Sebastian County); circa 1980.

Cuban man with afro wearing layered pearl necklace and off the shoulder a line dress combing thick wavy hair of another Cuban man wearing floral long sleeve shirt and khaki pants putting on lipstick in mirror posters of women and small American flag hanging on wall

Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Charles Lee Hughes Fort Chaffee Photograph Collection (MC 2250), box 1 folder 33.

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