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Title: Cecil Knockherworst Weatherbee collection
Dates: circa 1970
Collection Number: 2002-23
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1.2 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The collection consists of materials collected by Cecil Knockherworst Weatherbee (Danny), a columnist for the Bay Area Reporter
(BAR). Knockherworst was active in the Imperial Court and the collection contains materials related to the court system and
San Francisco bars.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Cecil Knockherworst Weatherbee collection. Collection Number: 2002-23. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of James E. Gordon, as the last legal representative of the Harvey Milk Archives (where this material was originally
donated) on February 27, 2002.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of materials collected by Cecil Knockherworst Weatherbee (Danny), a columnist for the Bay Area Reporter
(BAR). Knockherworst was active in the Imperial Court and the collection contains materials related to the court system and
San Francisco bars. It includes drawings of Empress Shirley for the BAR; photographs of Weatherbee, Jose Sarria, Lori Shannon,
Sweetlips, Empress Crystal, and other notables in the San Francisco Imperial Court System; programs and a dinner menu for
the Sagittarius Dinner of Empress of San Francisco III Shirley (Weatherbee) and the Honorable John Robert Pollard (1970);
and correspondence. The collection also includes the following artifacts: buttons commemorating Whetherbee’s “hanging” of
Sweet Lips (1971-1989), a Sweet Lips maraca, a “Miss Lithuania” trophy from the Gangway (1977), a Royal Oak Gay Community
Award (1979), and a whip. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001443;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008497; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008517; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008511
Imperial Court System
Journalism
Drag
Nightlife
Gay men