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African American drag queen

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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

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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

Crowd at the March

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View of the crowd in a park at the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation; a few men are shirtless and one in the...

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

Dancing at the Colony Club

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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

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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

Flirtations by the marquee

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Publicity photo of the Flirtations posing by a marquee announcing a performance (Cliff Townsend; Jon Arterton; Jimmy Rutland; Michael Callen; Aurelio...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Flirtations group photo

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Publicity photo of the Flirtations standing in a row and looking ahead at the camera (Jon Arterton; Cliff Townsend; Aurelio Font; Michael Callen...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Friends together

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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

Group photo with signs

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Group photo at the 1992 Kansas City pride parade of a group of white women holding several signs reading "Invisibility equals vulnerability" ; "Sappho...

Date Published
1992
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Leatherman from the front on Barney Allis Plaza

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Shot of the crowd at the pride festival on Barney Allis Plaza in Kansas City clearly meant to feature the front of the shirtless African American...

Date Published
June-1999
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

Leatherman on Barney Allis Plaza

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Backside of a well built shirtless African American man wearing leather short chaps with a pair of blue shorts underneath, leather harness, bicep...

Date Published
June-1999
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

On the phone

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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

Participants in the park

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Crowd of march participants (largely white people, one shirtless African American man seen at the right of the photo) at the March on Washington for...

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

Passages youth group banner

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Three unidentified white people marching in the 1992 Kansas City pride parade with a banner bearing the Passages logo; another unidentified white man...

Date Published
1992
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

Piratical costumes

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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

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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

Rainbow Society for the Deaf's rainbow van

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Entry in the 1992 Kansas City pride parade from the Kansas City Rainbow Society for the Deaf(KCRSD) consisting of a Volkswagen van painted with...

Date Published
1992
Member of
GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection

View of some of the crowd at the Millennium Pride Festival

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View from behind of some of the crowd attending the Millennium Pride Festival in Washington D.C. with a tent awning and large building seen behind...

Date Published
April-2000
Member of
GLAMA: Bill Todd and Art Bratt Collection

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