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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Joe Lombardo and friend

Joe Lombardo with his arm around an unidentified white woman at a buffet table at an unidentified venue (possibly the Forest Ballroom) in Kansas City; candles, beer bottles, and food can be seen on the table with other men in the background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_glama_heishman_photo-046.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0411

Preacher and others

"Preacher" (on the right) in a red jacket with bow tie posing with a white woman and a white man at an unidentified venue in Kansas City; all are holding paper cups and facing the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_glama_heishman_photo-047.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0411

In red at the Forest Ballroom

Unidentified white drag queen in red with black lace shorts being embraced from behind by an unidentified white man in a red pullover sweater at the Forest Ballroom in Kansas City; both are smiling and on the wall behind them is a handmade sign advertising an upcoming drag ball with a date of February 13, 1965.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_glama_heishman_photo-048.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