Manjushri V Bhapkar photographs of Cafe LMNOP and Fourth of July parade
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Manjushri V Bhapkar photographs of Cafe LMNOP and Fourth of July parade
- Date
- circa 1985 (inclusive)
- Creator
- Bhapkar, Manjushri V
- Extent
- 3.9 Megabytes
- Subjects
- Drag shows.
- Fourth of July
- Gay community -- Kentucky.
- Gays -- Social life and customs
- Parades
- Preferred Citation
- 2020av017: [identification of item] Manjushri V Bhapkar photographs of Cafe LMNOP and Fourth of July parade, circa 1985, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Bradley Picklesimer, from eastern Kentucky, opened Club au Go Go on Winchester Road, in 1980, a bar welcoming of the Lexington gay/lesbian and underground music scenes. By the mid-1980's he opened his second bar on Main Street in downtown Lexington, Cafe LMNOP. The bar fostered an underground community in Lexington by hosting drag shows and new wave/punk music bands. Cafe LMNOP closed by the early 1990s.
- Manjushri V Bhapkar took photographs of queer friendly and other groups participating in or watching the Lexington Fourth of July Parade. They also took pictures of drag shows at Cafe LMNOP.
- Scope and Content
- The Manjushri V Bhapkar photographs of Cafe LMNOP and Fourth of July parade (circa 1985; 3.9 megabytes; 35 files) consist of thirty-five scanned photographs from 1984 or 1985 of or relating to Lexington's Cafe LMNOP. Most of the photographs are from the Fourth of July festivities in downtown Lexington. Parade watchers and the Cafe LMNOP truck, with drag mermaids, mermans, and a drag Statue of Liberty are captured in the photographs. The collection also includes photographs from drag shows at Cafe LMNOP.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Group of parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, some in costume, circa 1985
WKQQ Lexington Rock radio station van, chick mascot, and person in drag at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Group in Shakespearean costume at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Eastern view of Main Street, parade trucks and parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Backyard Meadowthorpe and Cafe LMNOP parade trucks and parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag Statue of Liberty and confetti at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag Statue of Liberty and confetti at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag mermaids and mermans, parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag mermaids and mermans, parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag Statue of Liberty and Drag mermaids at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag mermaids and mermans, parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag mermaids and mermans, parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag mermaids and mermans, parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Group in western clothes on horseback at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Group of parade watchers in front of Cafe LMNOP at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Group of parade watchers in front of Cafe LMNOP at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Group of parade watchers in front of Cafe LMNOP at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Brezing's Piano Lounge/Disco Cadillac car, some people in drag costume, near Elm Tree Lane, circa 1985
Brezing Piano Lounge/Disco Cadillac car, some people in drag costume, near Elm Tree Lane, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag mermaids and mermans, parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag mermaids and mermans, parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Cafe LMNOP parade truck, Drag mermaids and mermans, parade watchers at the Lexington Fourth of July parade, circa 1985
Band and audience in park, circa 1985
Band and audience in park, circa 1985
Group in front of Cafe LMNOP, some in costume, circa 1985
Drag artist on stage, Cafe LMNOP, circa 1985
Drag artist on stage, Cafe LMNOP, circa 1985
Drag artist on stage, Cafe LMNOP (Bradley Picklesimer, Cafe LMNOP owner), circa 1985
Drag artist on stage, Cafe LMNOP (Bradley Picklesimer, Cafe LMNOP owner), circa 1985
Drag artist on stage, Cafe LMNOP (Bradley Picklesimer, Cafe LMNOP owner), circa 1985
Drag artist on stage, Cafe LMNOP (Bradley Picklesimer, Cafe LMNOP owner), circa 1985
Drag artist on stage with large snake, audience, Cafe LMNOP, circa 1985
Drag artist on stage, Cafe LMNOP, circa 1985
Drag artist on stage, Cafe LMNOP, circa 1985
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