Ken Hamai papers
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Title: Ken Hamai papers
Dates: circa 1979-1980s
Collection Number: 2022-25
Creator/Collector:
Hamai, Ken
Extent: .25 linear feet (one half-size document box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Ken Hamai is co-owner, with his longtime partner Jack Henyon, of the Bay Winds Lighting Company. His collection contains two
vintage Japanese brocade photograph albums, showing Hamai with Henyon and their friends between 1979 and the early 1980s,
including a group of five Asian-American gay men with whom Hamai was close.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item]. Ken Hamai papers. Collection Number: 2022-25. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Ken Hamai, February 2021.
Scope and Content of Collection
Ken Hamai is co-owner, with his longtime partner Jack Henyon, of the Bay Winds Lighting Company. His collection contains two
vintage Japanese brocade photograph albums, showing Hamai with Henyon and their friends between 1979 and the early 1980s,
including a group of five Asian-American gay men with whom Hamai was close.
Gay men
Asian Americans
Pride parades
Drag