Collections
The collection is comprised of one photograph and four award plaques. The photograph includes all the performers, and is autographed with their stage names. One of the plaques lists both the stage names and the given names of the troupe members.
The Robert Heishman Collection was gifted to LaBudde Special Collections in September 2012 by Robert Heishman. The collection contains images featuring patrons of and performers at local Kansas City nightclubs – including the Colony Club & Forest Ballroom, 1959-1967.
The Scoop Phillips Collection was gifted in December 2009 to LaBudde Special Collections by Jim Phillips, his brother. The collection dates from 1966 to 1992 and contains primarily material related to the gay community in Kansas City, including a number of essays Phillips published while at Park College that address various aspects of gay life in Kansas City and the Midwest. Also included are local and national publications, materials related to the Pink Triangle Political Coalition, and documentation of the National Planning Conference of Homophile Organizations, held in Kansas City in February of 1966. Materials have been divided into nine series categories.
A small quilt fashioned from a piece of the mile-long rainbow flag that was carried in the 1994 New York City Pride Parade to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
This collection is not yet processed.
The Steven Case Collection was a gift of Case in September 2018 and consists of personal and professional correspondence, court filings, witness deposition transcripts, newspaper clips, position statements, presentation resources, and other materials related to the Annie on My Mind case, especially the involvement of Steven Case; it also includes two maps.
The Steven R. Pierce Collection was gifted in July 2010 to LaBudde Special Collections by Pierce. The collection ranges in dates from 1983-1993 and contains a plethora of information dealing with the AIDS epidemic during a period when there was much trepidation and ignorance regarding this disease. The materials within this collection are focused on education; myth busting and bringing overall awareness to the forefront.
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.
Books and miscellaneous writings from a professor in the English and Women’s Studies departments at Wichita State University.
This collection is not yet processed.