Honolulu memorializes the Glade Show Club
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi on Friday held a ceremony celebrating International Pride Day — unveiling a plaque memorializing the historic Glade Show Club in Chinatown. The club was a venue for members of the LGBTQ+/mahu community during the 1960s and ’70s, celebrating their individuality amid adversity and persecution.
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Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi on Friday held a ceremony celebrating International Pride Day — unveiling a plaque memorializing the historic Glade Show Club in Chinatown. The club was a venue for members of the LGBTQ+/mahu community during the 1960s and ’70s, celebrating their individuality amid adversity and persecution.
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Mayor Rick Blangiardi and Brandy Lee unveil the plaque.
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A black and white photo of Glade Show Club.
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Kumu Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, left, and Brandy Lee, who performed at Glade.
Wong-Kalu blessed the plaque following its installation and unveiling on a column at the North Hotel Street entrance of Maunakea Marketplace, which formerly housed “the Glades.”
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Cocoa Chandelier, Richard FIscher, Brandy Lee and Jerrine Madayag.
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Kumu Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, left, Brandy Lee, Joe Wilson, director of Queer Histories of Hawaii, and Dean Hamer, director, Qwaves of Hawaii, during Friday's ceremony.
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Cocoa Chandelier, left, Mayor Rick Blangiardi, and Brandy Lee have moment with feather fans.
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Brandy Lee was a performer at Glade.
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Former performer Brandy Lee points to herself in an old Glade photo.
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Empress Kameialoha, left, and Tina Cortei take a photo together.
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Charmaine Lee Anderson holds a photo of herself as a performer.
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Cocoa Chandelier, left, with Mayor Rick Blangiardi.
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Mayor Rick Blangiardi speaks on Friday.
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