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GLAMA has launched an oral history initiative and we welcome suggestions of interview candidates. As the interviews are collected, they may be posted here on the web site for users to access. Contact us to participate, to recommend someone, or to obtain more information about this endeavor.
The Ordinance Project tells the story of the contentious struggle to pass an ordinance in Kansas City, Missouri prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations based upon sexual orientation and HIV status. Emerging from the local chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, activists struggled for nearly four years (1989-1993) to secure passage of the ordinance. Directed by UMKC doctoral candidate Austin R. Williams, the 90-minute film won the Celebration of Courage Award at the 2018 Kansas City LGBT Film Festival, and the Juror’s Choice Award at the 2019 Kansas International Film Festival.
The Victor Gugliuzza and Victor Peck Slides Collection was a gift of Gugliuzza and Peck in Fall 2012. Dating 1955-1985, the collection consists of 884 slides featuring their participation in folk dancing and theater productions, as well as a variety of domestic scenes in, among other places, Kansas City, St. Joseph (Missouri), Colorado, and on an acreage owned by Gugliuzza and Peck in Bethel, Kansas. Some slides are organized by preexisting categories Folk Dance/Music and Amateur Theatrical Productions, while the remaining are categorized by date. Within each category, some groups of slides had additional information present (shown in quotes to indicate the donor’s description), and that was documented as well.