![]() 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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