No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas Listen to an audio recording of the discussion here. The program was co-presented by the Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America, Out Here Now: Kansas City LGBT Film Festival and the Kansas City Human Rights Commission Task Force on Gay and Lesbian Issues. Panelists included Katheryn Shields, a council member then and now, and longtime activists Jon D. In June 2018, on the 25th anniversary of the ordinance, the Library hosted a program that explored its legacy and compared and contrasted the struggle for LGBT rights then and now.įilmmaker Austin Williams moderated the conversation, kicking off the event with a clip from his in-development documentary, The Ordinance Project, about the lead-up to and passage of the revised ordinance in June 1993. The Ordinance Project: KC’s LGBT LandmarkĪt the height of the AIDS crisis, the Kansas City City Council added “sexual orientation” to the local Civil Rights Ordinance, barring discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and people with HIV/AIDS.
The search for a gender-neutral pronoun actually goes back centuries Shakespeare used the singular “they,” and people have been coining new gender pronouns (beyond “hir” and “zie”) for generations. In a discussion of his 2020 book What’s Your Pronoun?, the University of Illinois' Dennis Baron examined the issue and lends some valuable historical context. June is all about love, joy, and Pride! All month long, we can celebrate and learn about our LGBTQ+ friends, families, and neighbors by reading books about some pretty amazing people. LGBTQIA+ voices in a visual storytelling medium! In commemoration of Pride Month, Kansas City Public Library offers this list of notable books from and about members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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In recognition of Pride Month, here are notable novels and genre fiction featuring LGBTQ+ characters.Ī Life full of Pride: LGBTQ+ Memoirs and Biographyīiographies and memoirs allow readers to 'read a mile in someone else's shoes'. Through fiction, readers can expand understanding and world view by engaging in stories that present different experiences from their own (that really aren't so different, after all). In commemoration of the Stonewall Inn protests and Christopher Street Liberation Day, here is a list of notable titles about the history of LGBTQ+ people from Kansas City Public Library.
Read WITH PRIDE: Explore suggested Pride Month reading from Library staff and community-created lists in our catalog that includes everything from history and non-fiction to popular fiction titles.
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