No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home: The Struggle Against Hate in Kansas

Series: Pride Month

Presented By
Kevin Willmott, C.J. Janovy

Most of Oscar-winner Kevin Willmott’s films, like BlacKkKlansman and Chi-Raq, have dealt with the struggles of Black Americans. But he writes, directing the 2023 documentary sequel to C.J. Janovy’s award-winning book of the same name, No Place Like Home, with its focus on LGBTQ rights, allowed him to expand upon his “belief that all these struggles have the same opponent – ignorance.”

Willmott and Janovy discuss with the Library’s Anne Kniggendorf how those who fight against progress for African Americans, women, and immigrants are the same ones who oppose the LGBTQ community. They talk about what they learned from the Kansans interviewed in the documentary, the types of changes they anticipate, and tell some stories that didn’t make it into the documentary.

University of Kansas film professor Willmott is the director of 14 feature films and a Kansas native. Janovy is a veteran journalist and director of content at Kansas City’s NPR affiliate, KCUR 89.3. The film is narrated by Kansas-born singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge, an Oscar winner and two-time Grammy winner.

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No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home: The Struggle Against Hate in Kansas

Series: Pride Month
Date & Location
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Reception: 5:30 pm
Truman Forum Auditorium
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