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Both Burnside and Davis had been members of the pathbreaking big band the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the first all-female integrated band in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Trumpeter Davis, whom Louis Armstrong admired, was a pioneer in multiple senses of the term. Not only was she a crucial member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, but also she was an openly gay performer at a time when very few gay musicians, much less gay jazz musicians, were open about their sexual identity. With her longtime companion Ruby Lucas Phelan, she operated &#8220;Tiny and Ruby&#8217;s Gay Spot,&#8221; a gay bar in postwar Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph suggests how, in some of Peoria&#8217;s nightclubs, the line between the &#8220;gay&#8221; world and the &#8220;straight&#8221; world was not so fiercely policed and was sometimes blurred. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/view-archive-by-place\/harolds-club\/\">Harold&#8217;s Club<\/a>, where Richard Pryor got his first gig as a paid entertainer, was also known as a venue that welcomed and even fostered\u00a0a broad range\u00a0of sexual expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Peoria had a reputation as the &#8220;land of the rube and the boob,&#8221; it actually had a sophisticated nightlife for a city of its size. 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