Roger Vanasse with Jack-o-Lantern Balloon

Photograph of Roger "Buster" Vanasse standing in a flower shop holding a large jack-o-lantern helium balloon. Vanasse is smiling and looking towards the camera. Roger was the first of the KQ family to be diagnosed with AIDS and passed in 1988. This photo is from a folder called "Some of our family who died of AIDS."

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Original record: Roger Vanasse with Jack-o-Lantern Balloon
Collection: Kim Deacon Collection
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Creator(s): Deacon, Kim (Creator)
Kings & Queens Bar (Nightclub) (Creator)
Subject(s): AIDS (Disease)
AIDS memorials
Communities (LGBTQ)
Gay bars
Gay community
Gays
HIV
HIV (viruses)
HIV infections
HIV/AIDS
Halloween
Halloween costumes
Halloween decorations
Jack
LGBTQ meeting places
LGBTQ night life
LGBTQ+
LGBTQ+ bars
LGBTQ+ chosen families
Lanterns
Lesbians
Patients
Positive Gay Men
Positive People
Positive Persons
Sexual minorities
Sexual minority community
Sexual minority culture
Woonsocket (R.I.)
Type: Still Image

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