Robert Heishman Collection

Description
With 49 images scanned from 35mm slides, this collection features images of queer nightlife in Kansas City, from 1959-1967. Clubs featured include the Colony Club, the Forest Ballroom, Arabian Nights, and the Jewel Box.
Member of
LaBudde Special Collections
GLAMA
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Glamazon (Barbara LeMay) with gentleman friend

"Glamazon" (Barbara LeMay) wearing a black dress, wrap, and holding a black purse posing for a photo with an unidentified man in a suit in front of the tile wall outside the Colony Club in Kansas City.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_glama_heishman_photo-042.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0411

Blue sequins

Unidentified white drag queen inside the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; she's wearing a tight, blue sequined dress and facing the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_glama_heishman_photo-043.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0411

Helping a lady down the stairs

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 a drag queen who is holding a bottle in a brown paper bag and a cigarette; others behind her also have bottles and cigarettes; at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_glama_heishman_photo-049.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0411

Red dress and white gloves

Unidentified white drag queen in a full length red dress with white shoes and white evening gloves dancing with an unidentified white man in tan pants and a brown pullover sweater at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_glama_heishman_photo-044.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0411