LGBTQ

Kirk Nelson's designs

Out of the Closet

With the loss of the West 18th Street Fashion show this June where is anyone to go to get their fashion fix? If you miss the glamour, color, humor and sparkle there is no better group to talk with than the designers of drag fashion.

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LGBT-supportive companies in KC

8 KC Companies Rank ‘Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality’

These eight companies scored as the top businesses in KC for LGBT equality.

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Stuart Hinds, curator of GLAMA

Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America Celebrates a Decade

The Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA) has been quietly collecting material documenting the LGBT experience in the region for nearly a decade.

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For Openly Gay Clergy, the Goal Is To Keep the Momentum

The Rev. Donna Simon says being a female member of the clergy sometimes is tougher than being a gay member. And Rabbi Javier Cattapan says his professional difficulties have more to do with being an immigrant from Argentina with an accent than with being gay. Those are signs of the welcome reality that many religious…

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Hailee Bland-Walsh leads a workout

Keeping the Pace After the Passion

Hailee Bland-Walsh has long been an activist in the LGBTQ community. Though she has shut down traffic marching in San Francisco, it was the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., in January that was one of the “most transformative” experiences she’s had. “It was so powerful, the density of human beings in one place,” said Bland-Walsh,…

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