All-Male College Musicals
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Paying tribute to the oh-so-lovely but very manly drag performers in the womanless, gay college musicals of a century ago. Hundreds more images at Flickr. Questions welcome!
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K. Buckley and M.C. Hasell as "Grace'' and "Mrs. Selwyn'' in a promotional photo for "The Sword of Damocles,'' a French romantic farce, presented as the proudly #womanless Sophomore Show in 1903 at Columbia University. #drag #boyswillbegirls
January 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
K. Buckley and M.C. Hasell as "Grace'' and "Mrs. Selwyn'' in a promotional photo for "The Sword of Damocles,'' a French romantic farce, presented as the proudly #womanless Sophomore Show in 1903 at Columbia University. #drag #boyswillbegirls
An unidentified but happy couple in "Kilroy Is Here'' (1947), the first #womanless musical staged by the University of Pittsburgh's Cap and Gown Club since 1941. #drag #boyswillbegirls
January 2, 2026 at 10:37 PM
An unidentified but happy couple in "Kilroy Is Here'' (1947), the first #womanless musical staged by the University of Pittsburgh's Cap and Gown Club since 1941. #drag #boyswillbegirls
Happy New Year! New AI colorization and restoration of a stunning #womanless show image from 1928. #drag #boyswillbegirls
January 1, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Happy New Year! New AI colorization and restoration of a stunning #womanless show image from 1928. #drag #boyswillbegirls
Zaftig Erwin Hufnagle rehearses a "love scene'' from Pittsburgh Cap and Gown's proudly #womanless "Snap Your Fingers'' (1940). #drag #boyswillbegirls
December 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Zaftig Erwin Hufnagle rehearses a "love scene'' from Pittsburgh Cap and Gown's proudly #womanless "Snap Your Fingers'' (1940). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Some AI colorized and enhanced images from Pittsburgh Cap and Gown's proudly #womanless "Head Over Heels'' (1941). #drag #boyswillbegirls
December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Some AI colorized and enhanced images from Pittsburgh Cap and Gown's proudly #womanless "Head Over Heels'' (1941). #drag #boyswillbegirls
"Princess Adella is described as 'Huntington C. Atwater, height 5 feet 8 inches, weight 150 pounds, chest measurement 38 inches,' '' the New York Times reported in reviewing the #womanless 1905 Columbia Varsity Show. "On the stage he was a dainty damsel in lace and chiffon who sang in high soprano."
December 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Princess Adella is described as 'Huntington C. Atwater, height 5 feet 8 inches, weight 150 pounds, chest measurement 38 inches,' '' the New York Times reported in reviewing the #womanless 1905 Columbia Varsity Show. "On the stage he was a dainty damsel in lace and chiffon who sang in high soprano."
Scantily clad specialty dancer Homer Lee Gensley graced ads for Wisconsin Haresfoot Club's 1941 #womanless musical. He died in 1953 from a severe type of polio, survived by a wife and three children. #drag #boyswillbegirls
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Scantily clad specialty dancer Homer Lee Gensley graced ads for Wisconsin Haresfoot Club's 1941 #womanless musical. He died in 1953 from a severe type of polio, survived by a wife and three children. #drag #boyswillbegirls
Earth men land on an all-female Venus in Columbia University's #womanless 1903 Varsity Show. Written by Edgar Allan Woolf, who later collaborated on the screenplay for "The Wizard Of Oz'' (1939). #drag #boyswillbegirls
December 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Earth men land on an all-female Venus in Columbia University's #womanless 1903 Varsity Show. Written by Edgar Allan Woolf, who later collaborated on the screenplay for "The Wizard Of Oz'' (1939). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Unidentified performers in Columbia University's #womanless 1953 Varsity Show. According to Barbara Kauder's Barnard Bulletin review that mainly praised the costumes, the musical revolved around "a department store crisis involving a surplus of falsies.'' AI colorized. #drag #boyswillbegirls
December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Unidentified performers in Columbia University's #womanless 1953 Varsity Show. According to Barbara Kauder's Barnard Bulletin review that mainly praised the costumes, the musical revolved around "a department store crisis involving a surplus of falsies.'' AI colorized. #drag #boyswillbegirls
1909 cartoon from The Gargoyle, humor magazine at the University of Michigan. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
December 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
1909 cartoon from The Gargoyle, humor magazine at the University of Michigan. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
Unidentified performer poses in costume to promote Georgia Tech's 1924 #womanless musical "The Seventh Veil.'' #drag #boyswillbegirls
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Unidentified performer poses in costume to promote Georgia Tech's 1924 #womanless musical "The Seventh Veil.'' #drag #boyswillbegirls
Atlanta Journal, 1921. Hundreds of college boys a year competed for the opportunity to be given six weeks of rigorous feminization training during the Roaring Twenties. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Atlanta Journal, 1921. Hundreds of college boys a year competed for the opportunity to be given six weeks of rigorous feminization training during the Roaring Twenties. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
O.J. "Oots" Oosterhardt makes "herself'' pretty for "The Private Secretary,'' 1921 #womanless comedy presented by Georgia Tech's Marionettes. #drag #boyswillbegirls
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
O.J. "Oots" Oosterhardt makes "herself'' pretty for "The Private Secretary,'' 1921 #womanless comedy presented by Georgia Tech's Marionettes. #drag #boyswillbegirls
Jimmie Walsh, center for Princeton's 150-pound football team, was petite enough to play the roller-skating "Fleurette'' in Princeton Triangle's proudly #womanless "Once Over Lightly'' (1938). #drag #boyswillbegirls
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Jimmie Walsh, center for Princeton's 150-pound football team, was petite enough to play the roller-skating "Fleurette'' in Princeton Triangle's proudly #womanless "Once Over Lightly'' (1938). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Sadly unidentified West Point cadet is "dragging to a hop'' (reads yearbook caption) in a spectacularly low-cut strapless gown for a proudly #womanless "Hundredth Night Show'' at West Point in the 1950s. #boyswillbegirls
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sadly unidentified West Point cadet is "dragging to a hop'' (reads yearbook caption) in a spectacularly low-cut strapless gown for a proudly #womanless "Hundredth Night Show'' at West Point in the 1950s. #boyswillbegirls
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 1933: " 'Miss' Russell Connolly, the stage beauty playing the lead in the Pitt Cap and Gown show this week, as she appeared in Mayor Herron's office to invite him and the City Council to the show at the Nixon Theatre." #drag #womanless #boyswillbegirls
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 1933: " 'Miss' Russell Connolly, the stage beauty playing the lead in the Pitt Cap and Gown show this week, as she appeared in Mayor Herron's office to invite him and the City Council to the show at the Nixon Theatre." #drag #womanless #boyswillbegirls
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Dick Curvink smolders as "Senorita Mercedes'' in Michigan Union Opera's proudly #womanless "Merrie-Go-Round'' (1929). #drag #boyswillbegirls
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Dick Curvink smolders as "Senorita Mercedes'' in Michigan Union Opera's proudly #womanless "Merrie-Go-Round'' (1929). #drag #boyswillbegirls
Like several other #womanless troupes, the Michigan Union Opera suspended shows for the duration of World War II. But the Army musical "Nips in the Bud'' was performed on campus in 1943. #drag #boyswillbegirls
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Like several other #womanless troupes, the Michigan Union Opera suspended shows for the duration of World War II. But the Army musical "Nips in the Bud'' was performed on campus in 1943. #drag #boyswillbegirls
Emory Niles takes a break at the pool table during a dress rehearsal for Harvard Hasty Pudding Club's #womanless "Here's the Pitch'' (1947). #drag #boyswillbegirls
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Emory Niles takes a break at the pool table during a dress rehearsal for Harvard Hasty Pudding Club's #womanless "Here's the Pitch'' (1947). #drag #boyswillbegirls
"They're Boys!" headlined the Chicago Tribune over this image of this lissome quintet from "Ad Noise,'' Purdue University's proudly #womanless 1925 "All-Men's Revue.'' #drag #boyswillbegirls
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"They're Boys!" headlined the Chicago Tribune over this image of this lissome quintet from "Ad Noise,'' Purdue University's proudly #womanless 1925 "All-Men's Revue.'' #drag #boyswillbegirls
C.C. "Bud'' Fridlin, varsity golfer at Purdue University, was the chic leading lady "Mary'' in the Little Theatre Players' second and proudly #womanless "All-Men's Revue,'' titled "Assorted Nuts'' in 1926. AI colorized and enhanced. #drag #boyswillbegirls
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
C.C. "Bud'' Fridlin, varsity golfer at Purdue University, was the chic leading lady "Mary'' in the Little Theatre Players' second and proudly #womanless "All-Men's Revue,'' titled "Assorted Nuts'' in 1926. AI colorized and enhanced. #drag #boyswillbegirls
"They're All Beauties,'' reads newspaper headline over lovely boilermaker "chorines'' from Purdue University's 1925 "All-Men's Revue'' posing prettily with comedian Eddie Kinzel. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"They're All Beauties,'' reads newspaper headline over lovely boilermaker "chorines'' from Purdue University's 1925 "All-Men's Revue'' posing prettily with comedian Eddie Kinzel. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
Varsity golfer Bud Fridlin caused a sensation in the title role of "Hell'n Helen'' (1926), the first "All-Men Revue'' sponsored by Purdue University's Little Theatre Players. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Varsity golfer Bud Fridlin caused a sensation in the title role of "Hell'n Helen'' (1926), the first "All-Men Revue'' sponsored by Purdue University's Little Theatre Players. #womanless #drag #boyswillbegirls