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'I decided we needed it': Lea Hopkins and a few friends worked to organize Kansas City's first Pride Parade in 1977.

Sarah Zapata received a commission for the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City’s Atrium Project and wanted her work to relate to the area. But shed never been.

Discussions of a downtown baseball stadium are not new for Kansas City.

Conservative legislators nationwide, including in Kansas, have introduced bills to restrict or criminalize certain drag performances. But drag queens haven’t stopped performing.

Conservative legislators nationwide, including in Kansas, have introduced bills to restrict or criminalize certain drag performances. But drag queens haven’t stopped performing.

Kansas legislators have introduced two bills that would regulate or criminalize drag performances at which minors are present. Similar bills have popped up in more than a dozen states around the count

Since Kansas City was established, drag in various forms has evolved from entertainment for power and control into a liberating art. Attempts to regulate the practice have also persisted.

Since Kansas City was established, drag in various forms has evolved from entertainment for power and control into a liberating art. Attempts to regulate the practice have also persisted.

Joel Barrett has been working on the KC Rainbow Tour over the past year, which will highlight the city's rich LGBTQ history he's uncovered dating back to before Stonewall.

Spread across two coffee shops and a bookstore, the “Black/Queer Kansas City” exhibit will showcase forgotten figures of local LGBTQ history — and hopefully encourage more Kansas Citians to share their own stories.