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• KC Pride Fest 2023

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  Find information about the KC Pride Fest here.

• Podcast - How Kansas City blazed a path for gay liberation

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  Years before the Stonewall uprising, Drew Shafer started Kansas City's first gay rights organization and published the first LGBTQ magazine in the Midwest. At one point, his Kansas City home was even the “information distribution center” for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights

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  Making History originated as a project in the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Public History class following the installation of the commemorative marker by GLAMA and LGBT-KC. This website is the digital version of the traveling exhibit, which…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month - Library of Congress

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  June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month. This month-long celebration demonstrates how LGBTQ Americans have strengthened our country, by using their talent and creativity to help create awareness and goodwill. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The ABC's of LGBT+

  Hardell, Ash,

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  Shares in-depth definitions of LGBT+ terms, and offers personal anecdotes from LGBT+ people.

• All Boys Aren't Blue

  a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beyond the Gender Binary

  Vaid-Menon, Alok,

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  Gender is a story, not just a word. Alok Vaid-Menon dares the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender non-conforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brave Face

  a Memoir

  Hutchinson, Shaun David,

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  "I wasn't depressed because I was gay. I was depressed and gay." The critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants opens up about what led to an attempted suicide in his teens, and his path back from the experience.

• Brazen

  Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

  Bagieu, Pénélope,

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  With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Skate for Your Life

  Baker, Leo, 1991-

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  "Your authenticity is your superpower." That's the motto that professional skateboarder Leo Baker lives by and champions. But like any hero's journey, learning about their power didn't come easy. In this installment of the Pocket Change Collective,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Continuum

  Man, Chella, 1998-

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  "Fine artist, activist, and Titans actor Chella Man uses his own experiences as a deaf, transgender, genderqueer, Jewish person of color to talk about cultivating self-acceptance and acting as one's own representation"--Publisher marketing.

• David Bowie Made Me Gay

  100 Years of LGBT Music

  Bullock, Darryl W.

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  David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today.

• Found in Transition

  a Mother's Evolution During Her Child's Gender Change

  Hassouri, Paria, 1973-

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  In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Eve

  My Journey From ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman

  Stein, Abby, 1991-

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  Stein was born as the first son in a rabbinical dynastic family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Stein felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. Without access to TV or the internet, and never taught…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bowie

  An Illustrated Life

  Hesse, María,

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  David Bowie was a master of artifice and reinvention. In that same spirit, illustrator María Hesse and writer Fran Ruiz have created a vivid retelling of the life of David Robert Jones, from his working-class childhood to glam rock success to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gentleman Jack

  the Real Anne Lister

  Choma, Anne,

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  In 1834, Anne Lister made history by celebrating and recording the first ever known marriage to another woman. This is her remarkable, true story. Anne Lister was extraordinary. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to They/them

  a Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity

  Getty, Stuart,

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  Ever wonder what "nonbinary" or "gender nonconforming" really means? Why would someone choose to identify that way? And how the heck do you use "they/them" pronouns for a singular person - isn't it supposed to be plural? This charming and disarming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Have Always Been Me

  a Memoir

  Brady-Davis, Precious,

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  Trans woman Precious Brady-Davis recalls her childhood growing up in the Omaha foster care system and Pentecostal faith as a biracial, gender-nonconforming child.

• In Sensorium

  Notes for My People

  Tanaïs,

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  "At once memoir and reckoning, In Sensorium interlaces memories of childhood in the South, Midwest, and New York with a universe of memories and scent--a sensorium--while offering a critical, alternate history of South Asia from a Bangladeshi Muslim…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Their Shoes

  Navigating Non-binary Life

  Windust, Jamie,

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  Offers experienced advice for non-binary people on how to navigate the world and their evolving identity. Covering everything from fashion and dating, to work and growing up, to future key debates, these funny tales and light-hearted anecdotes speak…Read moreRead more of this annotation