The flier seen here advertises the 1991 closet ball pageant, Drag Race'n, organized by the Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & The Olympic and Rainier Empire. The group is a member of the International Court System (ICS), the second largest LGBTQ organization in the world, and aims to provide funds and services to other non-profits within the local gay and lesbian community.
This item is one of many gathered by the Seattle-born author, artist, and chronicler of local drag culture, Donald Charles "Don" Paulson (1933-2012), in a collection he "dedicated to everyone who ever participated in a protest March, attended a Vigil, campaigned for Peace, Justice, Liberation, Human or Animal Rights, saved the Planet, welcomed the New Age, fought against Racism, Sexism, Ageism, Homophobia, and Abuse. And to anyone whose voice wanted to be heard in a world too often refusing to listen."
Caption information source: http://www.imperialcourtofseattle.org Caption information source: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv10271 Caption information source: http://www.historylink.org/File/4173
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv10271
Credit: MOHAI, Don Paulson Collection of Political and Social Ephemera, 2002.23.2.64.2
