Johnny Croskery with dogs

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Title

Johnny Croskery with dogs

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This photograph features Johnny Croskery (1941-2012) with his dogs. Croskery began his working life in the late 1950s as a window-dresser for the DIC department store. He was active as a drag queen performer from the 1960s. He performed at Carmen's International Coffee Lounge on Vivian Street, Wellington, in the late 1960s, and with drag artist Toni Rogét (Frank Lund), in the cabaret act 'Frankie and Johnny' at Carmen's Balcony Strip Club on Victoria Street in the 1970s. Croskery became an ic...

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Format

Image

Date created

2001

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1527000

Related subjects

Dogs / Johnny Croskery / homosexuality / paper / ink / colour prints / photography / sex role / LGBTQI+ / New Zealand

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