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Well before the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, Kansas City had its own active gay rights communi...

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Near the end of four months of filming in Kansas City, the Fab Five stars of Netflix’ infectious reality series Queer Eye sit down at the Cen...

In a discussion drawing from his new book The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After, Lucas Hilderbrand of the U...

Oscar winner Kevin Willmott (BlacKkKlansman) discusses one of his recent projects, the 2023 documentary sequel to Kansas City journalist C.J. Janovy’s...

Sharon McMahon, a former teacher whose fact-checking social media posts went viral during the 2020 election, discusses her new book The Small and the...

Lawrence-based teacher Matt Beat has over 1 million subscribers to his Mr. Beat and The Beat Goes On YouTube channels, through which he aims to bolste...

The story of the early struggle for LGBTQ+ rights has typically been told from the perspective of coastal cities like New York and San Francisco. Auth...

Clay Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, speaks to the divisiveness of our contemporary moment. A...

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