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Posts Tagged ‘Gender Equality’

New Survey Seeks Rural and Racially Diverse LGBTQ+ People

By | July 3, 2024 | 0
Marchers carry a huge flag during Kansas City's Pride Parade 2023.

A new study seeks to assess the needs of the LGBTQ+ community in the Kansas City area. But the survey isn’t reaching some key groups within the community.

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2 Years After Missouri Banned Abortion, Navigating Access Still Involves Fear, Confusion

By | June 24, 2024 | 0
The message “You are not alone, support is here” is painted on the window of the Planned Parenthood Great Plains on Friday in Overland Park, Kansas.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion two years ago. Since then, Missourians sought other ways to access the procedure.

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Honoring Womontown: Kansas City’s Intentional Lesbian Community

By | June 12, 2024 | 0
The womyn of the newly formed Womontown march in the 1989 Kansas City Pride Parade.

The Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America will install a historic marker honoring Womontown on Thursday, June 13, at 27th Terrace and Charlotte Street.

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Boone County Becomes Focus of Missouri Initiative Petition Campaigns Following Redistricting

By | June 7, 2024 | 0
Petitioners with Missourians for Healthy Families and Fair Wages unload dozens of boxes of signatures to deliver to the Secretary of State.

The 2022 Missouri congressional map split Boone County in half. Will it make a difference in the effort to get abortion on the ballot in November?

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More than 380,000 Sign Petition to Put Abortion Rights on Missouri Ballot

By | May 3, 2024 | 0
Supporters sign an initiative petition in support of a ballot measure that would legalize abortion up to the point of fetal viability in Missouri. during an event on Feb. 6, 2024, in Kansas City hosted by Missourians for Constitutional Freedom.

An effort to enshrine abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution has collected more than 380,000 signatures. The issue will likely be on the November ballot. 

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