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## Vol_2 of {B/qKC}: Soakie's
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<p class="quote-text">“After everything is said and done, Soakies was home.”</p>
<p class="quote-attrib">— Baby Boi, 2023</p>
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According to Colston and Robinson, Rinaldo was getting ready to close his shop around the same time Soakie's was becoming a pregame spot for Black queer people in the '90s. The three of them had established a friendly rapport in light of this. In fact, Robinson notes that Rinaldo treated him and the community with kindness and was extremely supportive.
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<p class="quote-text">“We don't have nowhere to go.”</p>
<p class="quote-attrib">— Jerry Colston, 2023</p>
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This would become an issue, though, as it drew away from the capital Soakie's owners were receiving, and was also the source of a lot of violence.
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<p class="quote-text">† There are currently no photos available in the public domain, or as donated to {B/qKC}, that capture festivities in the parking lot across from Soakie's. If you are in possession of any relevant photographs or material and would like to contribute to this article (and archive, overall) please contact Nasir Montalvo.</p>
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To my surprise, Baby Boi's DJing career didn't officially start until 2017and it seems a perfect continuation from performing for, as Baby Boi puts it, "if [they] can give people a good time or experience, let's do it."
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<p class="quote-text"><sup>‡</sup>Baby Boi references the late-haunted house, Main Street Morgue: located on 1325 Main Street from the 1970s to the early 00s. The business was shut down as part of the Power & Light Development.</p>
<p class="quote-text"><sup>§</sup>Descriptions of Kansas City's Ballrooms Scene are purposely meant to be ambiguous as to protect a well kept tradition of Kansas City's Black queer community.</p>
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It is with great honor that I welcome her collection to {B/qKC}.
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<p class="quote-text">The "starla_carr_collection" is one of the inaugural collections digitized and donated to {B/qKC}. The collection consists of various photos from Carr's time as a seamstress, performer and go-er of Soakies in the early 2000s.</p>
<p class="quote-text"><a href="/collections/starla-carr/" target="_blank">view the starla_carr_collection</a></p>
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It is with great honor that I welcome her collection to {B/qKC}.
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<p class="quote-text">The “tisha_taylor_collection” is one of the inaugural collections digitized and donated to {B/qKC}. The collection consists of various photos from Taylors time at Soakies and Kansas Citys Black Pride in 1999. </p>
<p class="quote-text"><a href="/collections/tisha-taylor/" target="_blank">view the tisha_taylor_collection</a></p>
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It is with great honor that I welcome his collection to {B/qKC}.
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<p class="quote-text">The “gary_carrington_collection” is one of the inaugural collections digitized and donated to {B/qKC}. The collection consists of various photos from Carringtons time at Soakies, as well as clippings from KC Exposures.</p>
<p class="quote-text"><a href="/collections/gary-carrington/" target="_blank">view the gary_carrington_collection</a></p>