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Pride Month
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
6:00pm
Online
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 12, 2025
6:00pm
Online
In Person
MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart shares stories from his new book Yet Here I Am about growing comfortable with his identity as a gay Black man and the i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Oscar winner Kevin Willmott (BlacKkKlansman) discusses one of his recent projects, the 2023 documentary sequel to Kansas City journalist C.J. Janovy’s...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 17, 2023
2:00pm
Online
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
7:30pm
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
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...