Collections
Promotional materials, photographs, and administrative documents related to AIDS Walk.
This collection is not yet processed.
The Barbara Lea Collection was donated in January 2014. It contains the organizational materials of Womontown from 1990 to 1995: flyers, newsletters, and community history. The collection also has articles written on Womontown along with letters requesting information about Womontown and Kansas City from prospective residents. Womontown also provided information on the Kansas City area for potential residents with brochures and articles about services, recreation and schools, and these are housed in the collection as well.
Promotional materials related to the Rainbow Tour.
This collection is not yet processed.
Papers and fundraising memorabilia from the nonprofit organization Women with One Voice.
This collection is not yet processed.
The Bary Porter Collection was a gift of Bary Porter on behalf of the Kansas City Heartland Chapter of The NAMES Project Foundation in March 2012. Contained in the collection are documents, publications, programs and articles pertaining to the business workings and events and displays of the Kansas City Chapter, as well as HIV/AIDS awareness issues. Newsletters of the Kansas City Chapter of The NAMES Project Foundation are present, along with meeting minutes, and general Chapter information provide insight into the workings of the short-lived Chapter, and various programs and advertisements for events shed light on the Kansas City Pride scene from the late 1990s through the early 2000s.
Documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to their involvement in Womontown. It features manuscripts, event materials from the Gay Games and My Sister’s Room, an organization for lesbian women of color founded by Powell and Moreno, and photos documenting Womontown events and activities.
Bill Todd and Art Bratt gifted their collection of GLAMA material to LaBudde Special Collections in August 2011. Inclusive dates are 1978-2012, with the bulk of materials in the 1987-1991 range, focusing on the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA), an organization to which Todd and Bratt were deeply dedicated. Included are photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, periodicals, news clippings, ephemera, memorabilia, audio and video cassettes. The highlight of this collection lies within the 48 scrapbooks which document the activities, adversities, goals and triumphs of the LGBT community. Of particular interest are two scrapbooks containing material gathered during the National March on Washington, D.C., October 11, 1987. These scrapbooks along with video tapes and photographs record an historical event that culminated in a demonstration reminiscent of the civil rights marches of the 1960s. LGBT Americans and a diverse coalition of their supporters, 200,000 people strong, called for more federal money for AIDS research and treatment and for an end to discrimination against homosexuals. In addition to the 1987 March, there are also photographs and news clipping of the April 1993 March on Washington. There is a plethora of material for any researcher covering a multitude of topics: LGBT issues, AIDS, Politics, Discrimination, Religion, Environmental Issues, etc. Another rich source to reference is the more than 500 periodicals, along with news clippings, covering local, national and world events and stories.
Small group of photos from the Kansas City social scene in the 1960s.
This collection is not yet processed.
A gift of Dr. Robert Minor in August 2012, this collection largely comprises issues of the Kansas and Kansas City editions of The Liberty Press, most of them featuring Minor’s syndicated column “Minor Details.” A few other periodicals, along with videotapes and a large poster, round out the collection.
The Bob Smith Collection was donated to the Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America (GLAMA) in December 2019 by Jerry Harrington, Smith’s friend. It contains personal documents and correspondence, with the bulk of the collection comprised of newspaper and magazine clippings. The collection also contains over 600 photographs from across Smith’s career as a model, encompassing the 1940s-1980s.