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Helping a lady down the stairs

Image

Unidentified group of people, all white, mostly men, with one or two drag queens, in a pink colored stairwell; one man is holding the black dress for...

Date Published
1965
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

High hair, boots, and roses at the Colony Club

Image

Unidentified white drag queen in high heeled boots, a brown jacket, and carrying a bouquet of red roses posing for a photo in front of the Colony Club...

Date Published
November-1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Holding her gloves

Image

Unidentified white drag queen in front of the tile wall outside of the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's wearing a pink sleeveless dress and holding a...

Date Published
November-1966
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

In a quiet corner

Image

Unidentified white man and drag queen sitting in the corner of the Forest Ballroom (likely) in Kansas City; the man is in a suit and the drag queen is...

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

In costume at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Two unidentified white drag queens in black costumes (one a cat woman with a cigarette in hand and the other wearing a dress, black cape and some sort...

Date Published
November-1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

In front of the Colony Club

Image

Unidentified white drag queen in a black skirt with black and white polka-dot blouse and light brown wig posing for a photo in front of the tiled wall...

Date Published
November-1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

In front of the stage at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Three unidentified white participants competing in a drag ball, with the emcee and the Kings of Rythm [sic] on the bandstand; the person in front of...

Date Published
1964
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

In red and pink

Image

Unidentified white drag queen posing for a photo in front of the tiled wall in front of the Colony Club in Kansas City; she's facing the camera and...

Date Published
November-1965
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

In red at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Unidentified white drag queen in red with black lace shorts being embraced from behind by an unidentified white man in a red pullover sweater at the...

Date Published
February-1965
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

In the kitchen with Easter eggs

Image

Two young girls, Art Bratt's grand nieces, in the kitchen with dyed Easter eggs posing for a photo with the younger girl half hidden behind the older...

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

Interfaith coalition with their banner in the parade

Image

Group of unidentified people (overwhelmingly white) walking behind a banner reading "Interfaith Coalition" in the pride parade along Oak Street on...

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

Joe Lombardo and friend

Image

Joe Lombardo with his arm around an unidentified white woman at a buffet table at an unidentified venue (possibly the Forest Ballroom) in Kansas City...

Date Published
1965
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

Joe Lombardo and patron at the Forest Ballroom

Image

Joe Lombardo in white shirt, red tie, and apron standing with his arm around an unidentified white drag queen patron seated on a bar stool wearing a...

Date Published
October-1962
Member of
GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection

Joe Lombardo with two drag queens

Image

Joe Lombardo standing with his arms around an unidentified white drag queen on either side of him at the Forest Ballroom (likely) in Kansas City; the...

Date Published
December-1964
Member of
GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection

John Tuccillo with some of his performers from the Jewel Box Lounge

Image

Four unidentified white drag queens with "Sugar Daddy" (possibly John Tuccillo, owner of the Jewel Box Lounge) posing for a photo in front of the tile...

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

Kansas City delegation in the March

Image

Kansas City's delegation during the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation; several signs are seen including one...

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

Keith Spare and another speaker on stage at the GALA '91 Picnic

Image

Keith Spare on stage with his arm around an unidentified white woman holding a microphone at the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park; sound...

Date Published
June-1991
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt 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 being hugged by Emanuel Cleaver

Image

Emanuel Cleaver hugging Keith Spare on stage at the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park; a deaf interpreter (unidentified white man) is standing to...

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 on stage at the GALA '91 Picnic

Image

Keith Spare speaking on stage during the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park; an arc of balloons and stone walls are behind him and sound equipment...

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

Keith Spare on stage at the GALA '91 Picnic

Image

Keith Spare on stage with Linda May at the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park; Spare is holding a microphone and an arc of balloons, stone walls...

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

Keith Spare on stage with Emanuel Cleaver

Image

Keith Spare on stage with Emanuel Cleaver who is hugging Linda May and has his back to the camera at the GALA '91 Picnic in Southmoreland Park; an arc...

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

Kiss at the Colony Club

Image

Unidentified white man kissing an unidentified white drag queen with a black feather boa blocking most of her face; she's wearing a full length gold...

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

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Member of

  • GLAMA: Michael Boles Collection (119)
  • GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection (79)
  • GLAMA: Robert Heishman Collection (38)
  • GLAMA: Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City (LGCCKC) Collection (9)
  • GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection (9)
  • GLAMA: Lavender Ladies Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (256)

Genres

  • Color photographs (232)
  • Group portraits (184)
  • Slides (157)
  • Snapshots (89)
  • Portrait photographs (68)
  • Cityscape photographs (29)
  • Negatives (29)
  • Film negatives (27)
  • Black & white photographs (24)
  • Gelatin silver prints (24)
  • Publicity photographs (10)
  • Architectural photographs (4)
  • Landscape photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (157)
  • 1991-2000 (86)
  • 1981-1990 (12)
  • 2001-2010 (1)

Subjects

  • Gay men (232)
  • Men, White (226)
  • Gay bars (153)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Social aspects (152)
  • Drag queens (125)
  • Lesbians (117)
  • Women, White (112)
  • Bisexuals (67)
  • Tile facades (62)
  • Crowds (36)
  • Signs and signboards (31)
  • Gay rights (30)
  • Handbags (30)
  • African American men (29)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (28)
  • Parks (25)
  • Streets (24)
  • Cigarettes (20)
  • Smoking (20)
  • Flags--Political aspects (19)
  • Picnics (19)
  • Banners (17)
  • Gloves (17)
  • Picnic grounds (17)
  • Buildings (16)
  • Gay pride parades (15)
  • Stone walls (15)
  • Automobiles (13)
  • Dancers (13)
  • Dance (12)
  • Entertainers (12)
  • Fur garments (12)
  • Parades (12)
  • Balloons (10)
  • African American women (9)
  • Beer (9)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (9)
  • Audiences (8)
  • Stoles (Clothing) (8)
  • Bands (Music) (7)
  • Drag kings (7)
  • Drag shows (7)
  • Halloween costumes (7)
  • Mayors (7)
  • Microphone (7)
  • Women musicians (7)
  • Women singers (7)
  • Beer bottles (6)
  • Conversation (6)
  • Hats (6)
  • Photographers (6)
  • Sweaters (6)
  • Cigarette smokers (5)
  • Flags--Social aspects (5)
  • Independent bookstores (5)
  • Tables (5)
  • Books (4)
  • Boots (4)
  • Flags--U.S. states (4)
  • Jackets (4)
  • Pearls (4)
  • Tiaras (4)
  • Advertising (3)
  • AIDS activists (3)
  • Awnings (3)
  • Buffets (Cooking) (3)
  • Gays (3)
  • Girls (3)
  • Guitar (3)
  • Interpreters for the deaf (3)
  • Lecturers (3)
  • Litter (Trash) (3)
  • Monuments (3)
  • Musicians (3)
  • Parties (3)
  • Tents (3)
  • Volunteer workers in community development (3)
  • Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.) (3)
  • African American musicians (2)
  • Ashtrays (2)
  • Authors (2)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments)--Employees (2)
  • Beer cans (2)
  • Beer signs (2)
  • Bikinis (2)
  • Calico (2)
  • Celebrities (2)
  • Children, White (2)
  • Community centers (2)
  • Dwellings (2)
  • Exhibit booths (2)
  • Families (2)
  • Food (2)
  • Gay pride celebrations (2)
  • Hugging (2)
  • Journalists (2)
  • Laughter (2)
  • Masters of ceremonies (2)
  • Memorials (2)
  • Necklaces (2)
  • Nieces (2)
  • Parade floats (2)
  • Piano (2)
  • Press (2)
  • Racism in popular culture (2)
  • Roses (2)
  • Staircases (2)
  • Stairs (2)
  • Television camera operators (2)
  • Thomas Jefferson Memorial (Washington, D.C.) (2)
  • Toasts (2)
  • Trees (2)
  • Vodka (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American girls (1)
  • African American guitarists (1)
  • Alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Aprons (1)
  • Art calendars (1)
  • Authors--Autographs (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Bartenders (1)
  • Bartending (1)
  • Bears (Gay culture) (1)
  • Bicycles (1)
  • Black leather jackets (1)
  • Boulders (1)
  • Bow ties (1)
  • Boxes (1)
  • Brooches (1)
  • Business meetings (1)
  • Calendars (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Candles (1)
  • Capitol Rotunda (United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.) (1)
  • Capitols--Buildings (1)
  • Cell phones (1)
  • Cemeteries (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Chekeré (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • Church buildings (1)
  • Cities and towns (1)
  • Civil rights workers (1)
  • Clergy (1)
  • Cliffs (1)
  • Closed captioning (1)
  • Clowns (1)
  • Coats (1)
  • Coffeehouses (1)
  • Consumers (1)
  • Costume (1)
  • Costume jewelry (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Cyclists (1)
  • Earrings (1)
  • Easter eggs (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Festivals (1)
  • Flags (1)
  • Folding chairs (1)
  • Gay activists (1)
  • Gay clergy (1)
  • Gay couples (1)
  • Gay liberation movement (1)
  • Gay singers (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Handshaking (1)
  • Horses (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Jukeboxes (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Kimonos (1)
  • Kissing (1)
  • Kitchens (1)
  • Lesbian authors (1)
  • Lesbians' writings, American (1)
  • Lingerie (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Memorial service (1)
  • Mimes (1)
  • Minivans (1)
  • Moccasins (1)
  • Mothers and daughters (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Paper bags (1)
  • Paper money (1)
  • Pavilions (1)
  • Pedestrian crosswalks (1)
  • Pedestrians (1)
  • Photography of the nude (1)
  • Pickup trucks (1)
  • Pin-back buttons (1)
  • Pirates (1)
  • Pointing (Gesture) (1)
  • Police vehicles (1)
  • Prehistoric peoples (1)
  • Racism against Asians (1)
  • Racism against indigenous peoples (1)
  • Reggae musicians (1)
  • Restrooms (1)
  • Ribbons (1)
  • Satin (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Scaffolding (1)
  • Scarves (1)
  • Sepulchral monuments (1)
  • Shawls (1)
  • Shelving for books (1)
  • Shoes (1)
  • Sidewalks (1)
  • Signs and symbols--Social aspects (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Spoken word poetry, American (1)
  • Storefronts (1)
  • Street-food vendors (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • T-shirts--Social aspects (1)
  • Tattooed people (1)
  • Tattooing (1)
  • Taxicabs (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Television display systems (1)
  • Television journalists (1)
  • Towers (1)
  • Umbrellas (1)
  • Uncles (1)
  • Vending stands (1)
  • Volunteers (1)
  • Whiskey (1)
  • Witches (1)
  • Women's History Month (1)
  • Women authors (1)
  • Women poets, American (1)
  • Yawning (1)

Subjects, Community

  • White LGBTQ+ people (248)
  • White gay men (157)
  • LGBTQ+ events (99)
  • Gay liberation (84)
  • LGBTQ+ activists (83)
  • LGBTQ+ activism (77)
  • Gay pride (42)
  • LGBTQ+ demonstrations (40)
  • White lesbians (38)
  • LGBTQ+ symbols (35)
  • Rainbow flags (32)
  • African American LGBTQ+ people (26)
  • African American gay men (9)
  • LGBTQ+ musicians (7)
  • Women's bookshops (5)
  • LGBTQ+ Christians (4)
  • Gay political activists (3)
  • Lesbian political activists (3)
  • LGBTQ+ community centres (3)
  • LGBTQ+ Deaf people (3)
  • African-American lesbians (2)
  • Faeries (2)
  • Pink triangles (2)
  • Camp (Gay culture) (1)
  • Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people (1)
  • LGBTQ+ authors (1)
  • LGBTQ+ bookshops (1)
  • LGBTQ+ poetry (1)
  • Red ribbons (AIDS) (1)
  • (-) LGBTQ+ people (258)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Area (160)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (42)
  • Washington (D.C.) (40)
  • Southmoreland Park (23)
  • Oak Street (12)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Westport (1)

Subjects, People

  • Spare, Keith (12)
  • Cleaver, Emanuel, II, 1944- (7)
  • Garcia, Dr. (5)
  • LeMay, Barbara (5)
  • May, Linda (Activist) (5)
  • Lombardo, Joe (4)
  • Arnold, Skip (2)
  • Green, Bobby (2)
  • Hardy, Gary (Drag queen) (2)
  • Lackey, Lee (2)
  • Michelle (Drag queen) (2)
  • Pacino, Nick (2)
  • Todd, Bill (Gay rights activist) (2)
  • Allen, G. G. (Drag queen) (1)
  • Amet, Tchiya (1)
  • Arterton, Jon (1)
  • Barbone, John (Reverend) (1)
  • Battaglia, Tony (1)
  • Beard, Beth Elaine (1)
  • Belesakos, Georgia (1)
  • Bishop, Heather (1)
  • Bratt, Art (1)
  • Byrne, Patrick C. (1)
  • Callen, Michael, 1955-1993 (1)
  • Carrol, Billy (1)
  • Christian, Meg (1)
  • DiFranco, Ani (1)
  • Dobkin, Alix (1)
  • Dole, Robert J., 1923- (1)
  • Driskill, Joan (1)
  • Font, Aurelio (1)
  • Fouts, Jamie (1)
  • Frazier, Helen (1)
  • Holmes, Horace (Kansas City resident) (1)
  • Lee, Terry (Drag queen) (1)
  • Manning, Mark (Activist) (1)
  • Martinez, Cassie (1)
  • Martz, Sandra (1)
  • Miller, Josef (Singer) (1)
  • Newman, Lesléa (1)
  • Nunn, Sam (1)
  • Olson, Alix (1)
  • Peters, Cheryl (1)
  • Phalen, Gary (1)
  • Powell, Colin L. (1)
  • Ray, Mickey (1)
  • Resto, Juan (1)
  • Rutland, Jimmy (1)
  • Schneider, David (Drag queen) (1)
  • Scott, Nancy (Singer) (1)
  • Shafer, Drew (1)
  • Shelley, Anne (1)
  • Simpson, Christy (Musician) (1)
  • Spence, Susan (Photographer) (1)
  • Stefoné (1)
  • Thompson, Nelson Lavert (Fuzzy), 1944-2015 (1)
  • Tin Woodman (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Townsend, Cliff (1)
  • Tuccillo, John (Nightclub owner) (1)
  • Viet, Ardie (1)
  • Woods, Claude (1)

Events

  • March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation (1993 : Washington, D.C.) (27)
  • National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (9)
  • Millennium March on Washington (3)
  • Millennium Pride Festival (Washington D.C.) (1)
  • Out in Westport (Event : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991-06 (34)
  • 1968-11 (32)
  • 1993-04-25 (27)
  • 1965-11 (23)
  • 1966-11 (21)
  • 1964-11 (19)
  • 1964 (14)
  • 1967-10 (10)
  • 1987-10-11 (9)
  • 1991 (8)
  • 2000 (7)
  • 1961-03 (6)
  • 1963-02 (6)
  • 1965 (6)
  • 1964-12 (5)
  • 1999-06 (4)
  • 1961 (3)
  • 1961-02 (3)
  • 1970 (3)
  • 2000-04-30 (3)
  • 1960-11 (2)
  • 1965-03 (2)
  • 1968-10 (2)
  • 1993-04 (2)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 1962-10 (1)
  • 1964-01 (1)
  • 1965-02 (1)
  • 1982 (1)
  • 1986-02-15 (1)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1992-03-07 (1)
  • 1992-05-02 (1)
  • 1993-03-20 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 2000-04 (1)
  • 2002-03 (1)
  • 2003 (1)

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