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Article: La Cueva: the oldest Latino drag club in the country has done much to change attitudes in Chicago's Mexican community.
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- Colorlines Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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IT IS A.M. on a Saturday night, and the crowd at La Cueva is going wild. Lines form at the sides of the stage as adoring gay and straight men and women wait their chance to stuff bills in the gold-spangled bikini of a shapely transgender dancer gyrating and lipsyncing joyously to salsa music.
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La Cueva, a signless, inconspicuous club on a vibrant but gritty stretch of 26th Street--the main drag of Chicago's Mexican community La Villita--is by many accounts the oldest existing Latino drag club in the country. And the show "Miss Ketty's Latina Review," hosted by Puerto Rican transgender diva Ketty Teanga, is known as one of the ...