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Celebrate Pride Month with a tour of Kansas City's historic LGBTQ landmarks
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As LGBTQ Pride Month kicks off, it’s a great moment to celebrate all of the ways Kansas Metropolis promotes LGBTQ equality.
The capital of Kansas City, Missouri, created the state of Missouri's very first LGBTQ Commission in And just last year, the capital received a — a perfect score! — on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index. Kansas City also promotes Diverse economic interests through the LGBT Mid-America Chamber of Commerce.
But Pride Month is so much more than a time for organizations and businesses to honor the LGBTQ community. It’s an opportunity to retain the resistance undertaken by groups that have prolonged been marginalized by mainstream society.
Many people know that June marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots in New York City in But what many people don’t comprehend is that Kansas Urban area played an important role in the “homoph
Missie B's opened it's doors in April as a piano/karaoke bar with extraordinary entertainment and drag shows. With the support of the community since we opened, we have been able to expand from a very small neighborhood bar to the most popular nightclub in Kansas City. We are unseal from noon until a.m. days a year serving our clientele 21 years of age and over. We offer the most affordable drinks in town from noon until p.m. daily, and offer nightly drink specials Sunday through Thursday. We have the friendliest staff in Kansas City and you are guaranteed to have a good time any day you visit. We hold 3 separate bar areas including a smoking patio, and 3 to 7 bartenders nightly to confirm the best service workable. After all, we are the home of Nice Times and Good Friends!
Through the years, we possess done our best to give back to our community that has supported us. With the back of our sister bars and community our most recent fundraiser was for the victims of Pulse which raised over $53, We have pot luck dinners on Thanksgiving and Christmas for those people who have no place to go.
Gay Kansas City
In the preliminary 19th century, the Westport community of Kansas City was the trailhead for legendary destinations that included Santa Fe, California, and the Oregon Trail. Today, this historical district is now the center of the Kansas City homosexual community.
There are real cowboys here — lots of queer folks from the Ozarks and the Texas Panhandle. Their stories can be vivid and heartbreaking a very different spin on gay life outside the usual urban metropolis. A amazing place to trap up with these cowpokes is at the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds, especially during the Missouri Same-sex attracted Rodeo Association’s Show-Me State Rodeo over the Labor Daytime Weekend.
Cowboys aside, Kansas City also presents a surprisingly robust theater and cabaret scene, complementing a fine array of dance halls, saloons, and edgy drag shows. The folks here own fun, and so will you.
Other dates on the LGBT calendar include: the Kansas Capital G&L Film & Video Festival evaluating throughout the year; Gay Pride KC festival beside the Missouri River in early June; and the Bear
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