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African American drag queen

Image

Unidentified African American drag queen standing in front of the tiled wall outside of the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's wearing a light blue...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Bad lighting and a short skirt

Image

Two unidentified African American drag queens posing in bad lighting at an unidentified venue in Kansas City; the one on the right is wearing a blonde...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Camera man, photographer and the crowd at the GALA '91 Picnic

Image

Unidentified African American camera man with African American woman reporter and a kneeling white male photographer in front of the crowd and looking...

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Crowd at the GALA '91 Picnic

Image

Crowd (largely white) at the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park; one African American woman in a pink hat is looking over her shoulder at the...

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Crowd at the GALA '91 Picnic

Image

View of the crowd gathered for the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park.

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Crowd at the GALA '91 Picnic

Image

View from behind of the large crowd gathered for the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park.

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

d'Bronx food stall at the GALA '91 Picnic

Image

People lined up at the d'Bronx's food stall during the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park; a banner with their logo is seen and one of the...

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Dancing at the Colony Club

Image

Two unidentified drag queens (one white, one African American) dancing near the tables at the Colony Club (likely) in Kansas City; both are wearing...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Fabulous Flirtations

Image

Publicity photograph of the Flirtations (left to right: Cliff Townsend, Jon Arterton, Jimmy Rutland, Michael Callen, Aurelio Font) hamming it up in...

Date Published
1989
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Friends together

Image

Unidentified African-American drag queen posing for a photo with an unidentified white man at the Colony Club (likely) in Kansas City; she is wearing...

Date Published
October-1967
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Good friends

Image

Mark Manning and an unidentified African American woman with their arms around each other and smiling for the cameras near a shelf of books at Phoenix...

Date Published
March-07-1992
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Keith Spare and Emanuel Cleaver at the GALA '91 Picnic

Image

Keith Spare standing with Emanuel Cleaver amongst the crowd at the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park; various tent awnings and people are seen; an...

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Keith Spare introducing Nelson "Fuzzy" Thompson

Image

Keith Spare with a microphone looking on at an African American man in a suit (likely Nelson "Fuzzy" Thompson) waving to the crowd on stage at the...

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Keith Spare walking with Emanuel Cleaver

Image

Keith Spare walking beside Emanuel Cleaver and others at the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park; walking and facing to the right of the photo.

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Looking around Phoenix Books

Image

Three members of the Flirtations (two white men, one African American man) looking around Phoenix Books; one man holding an open book.

Date Published
May-02-1992
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

Marchers with many flags

Image

View of a crowd of marchers with several flags and a few banners at the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation...

Date Published
April-25-1993
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

MCC members in the pride parade

Image

Unidentified members of the MCC-KC (all white men and women) marching behind a banner in the pride parade along Oak Street on route to the GALA '91...

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Michigan delegation at the march

Image

Group of people in the middle of a street around a banner reading "Michigan" with the 'I's dotted with pink triangles at the March on Washington for...

Date Published
April-25-1993
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

On the phone

Image

Two unidentified men, one an African American and the other white, at the Forest Ballroom (likely) in Kansas City; the white man on the left is...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Performer on stage during the march

Image

An African American man performing on stage during the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation; scaffolding and a...

Date Published
April-25-1993
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Piratical costumes

Image

Unidentified white man and woman posing together for a photo amid a crowd of patrons at an unidentified nightclub in Kansas City; they are both in red...

Date Published
October-1967
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Posing for a photo

Image

Unidentified African American man posing for a photo with his arm around the waist of an unidentified female impersonator at the Colony Club (likely)...

Date Published
November-1968
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Stefoné

Image

Publicity photo head shot of Stefoné in dreadlocks and wearing a floppy hat; facing the camera and smiling.

Date Published
1996
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Tchiya Amet

Image

Publicity photo of Tchiya Amet in a sleeveless shirt and directly facing the camera; she is also wearing a beaded necklace.

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

View from above at the LGCCKC grand opening

Image

Gary and three unidentified others (one white man and two African American people (one a woman, the other undetermined due to the view)), one with...

Date Published
June-1999
Member of
GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection

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Member of

  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (13)
  • GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection (7)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (4)
  • GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (26)

Genres

  • Group portraits (22)
  • Color photographs (20)
  • Snapshots (16)
  • Slides (7)
  • Black & white photographs (6)
  • Gelatin silver prints (6)
  • Portrait photographs (4)
  • Film negatives (3)
  • Negatives (3)
  • Publicity photographs (3)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (18)
  • 1961-1970 (7)
  • 1981-1990 (1)

Subjects

  • Gay men (24)
  • Men, White (20)
  • African American men (19)
  • Lesbians (18)
  • Bisexuals (12)
  • Women, White (12)
  • Gay rights (11)
  • African American women (9)
  • Parks (8)
  • Picnics (8)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (7)
  • Gay bars (7)
  • Picnic grounds (7)
  • Crowds (5)
  • Entertainers (5)
  • Drag queens (4)
  • Signs and signboards (3)
  • AIDS activists (2)
  • Banners (2)
  • Books (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Community centers (2)
  • Flags--Political aspects (2)
  • Independent bookstores (2)
  • Mayors (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Tile facades (2)
  • Women musicians (2)
  • Women singers (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Bicycles (1)
  • Celebrities (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Civil rights workers (1)
  • Clergy (1)
  • Consumers (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Cyclists (1)
  • Dance (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Earrings (1)
  • Exhibit booths (1)
  • Flags--Social aspects (1)
  • Flags--U.S. states (1)
  • Gay pride celebrations (1)
  • Gay pride parades (1)
  • Halloween costumes (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Parades (1)
  • Pearls (1)
  • Pin-back buttons (1)
  • Pirates (1)
  • Reggae musicians (1)
  • Scaffolding (1)
  • Shelving for books (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Stairs (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Street-food vendors (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Sweaters (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Television camera operators (1)
  • Television journalists (1)
  • Tents (1)
  • Vending stands (1)
  • Volunteers (1)
  • Volunteer workers in community development (1)

Subjects, Community

  • White LGBTQ+ people (21)
  • LGBTQ+ events (17)
  • Gay liberation (16)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (16)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (16)
  • Gay pride (9)
  • African American gay men (8)
  • White gay men (6)
  • LGBTQ+ symbols (4)
  • Rainbow flags (4)
  • LGBTQ+ demonstrations (3)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (3)
  • African-American lesbians (2)
  • LGBTQ+ community centres (2)
  • Women's bookshops (2)
  • LGBTQ+ Christians (1)
  • White lesbians (1)
  • (-) African American LGBTQ+ people (26)
  • (-) LGBTQ+ people (26)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (14)
  • Southmoreland Park (8)
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (7)
  • Washington (D.C.) (3)
  • Oak Street (1)

Subjects, People

  • Spare, Keith (3)
  • Cleaver, Emanuel, II, 1944- (2)
  • Amet, Tchiya (1)
  • Arterton, Jon (1)
  • Callen, Michael, 1955-1993 (1)
  • Font, Aurelio (1)
  • Manning, Mark (Activist) (1)
  • Rutland, Jimmy (1)
  • Spence, Susan (Photographer) (1)
  • Stefoné (1)
  • Thompson, Nelson Lavert (Fuzzy), 1944-2015 (1)
  • Tin Woodman (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Townsend, Cliff (1)

Events

  • March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation (1993 : Washington, D.C.) (3)

Date Published

  • 1991-06 (9)
  • 1968-11 (5)
  • 1993-04-25 (3)
  • 1967-10 (2)
  • 1999-06 (2)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 1992-03-07 (1)
  • 1992-05-02 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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