Williams secured access to that archival footage partly through the help of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA), a growing collection of memorabilia, documents, AIDSWalk T-shirts, scrapbooks, artwork, photos, publications, playbills, and other materials donated by people from the Kansas City area.Īustin Williams/The Ordinance Project A still from 'The Ordinance Project' shows Jon Barnett, Kansas City's first openly gay candidate for City Council, at City Hall in the early 1990s. Williams used archival footage to capture heated exchanges at City Hall, as gay-rights and AIDS activists fought for services and discrimination protection in the late 1980s before Kansas City, Missouri, passed an ordinance in 1993. That becomes strikingly clear in a documentary film called “ The Ordinance Project,” released last year by Austin Williams, a UMKC doctoral student. The debate in those cities has been timely, but it’s a conversation Kansas City, Missouri, went through more than 25 years ago – and many of the aspects have been similar. Recent news out of Johnson County, Kansas, has been about cities adopting non-discrimination ordinances with protections for members of the LGBTQ community.
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