The Jewel Box Revue: America's First Gay Community? (PHOTOS)
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Posted 02.03.2013
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In 1939, during a time when gay people were viewed as abhorrent subversives and a threat to society, two gay lovers, Danny Brown and Doc Benner, created and produced America's first racially inclusive traveling revue of female impersonators, the Jewel Box Revue.
