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A drag queen, at left, dances with another patron at the Colony Club, one of Kansas City's most essential gay bars in the 1960s. Credit Jack Ames/LaBudde Exceptional Collections, UMKC University Libraries

This story was produced in partnership with KCUR 89.3. To listen to the December 15, 2023, broadcast, visit: KCUR.org. 

In a radio interview prior to Lucas Hilderbrand's speaking engagement at the Kansas City General Library, he says he never really imagined Kansas Urban area “as being a gay city or a queer city.” 

The University of California-Irvine professor of production and media studies had visited family in Kansas Metropolis a lot growing up, but it wasn’t until much later that he learned about the city’s rich history of gay bars. 

“It actually had the best collection of any place around the country to tell the story of drag and how it emerged as a queer bar staple,” Hilderbrand says, referring to the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. 

Hilderbrand’s discoveries at GLAMA inspired him to make the city one of just a not many he includes in his new guide, “The Bars Are Ours,” about the history and cultures of Amer


LGBTQ Bar Association of Greater Kansas Municipality is a charity, 501(c)(6) membership association of the woman-loving woman, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and allied legal community in the Kansas Capital metropolitan area.  We were formed in 2007 as Kansas City LEsbian, Queer , and Allied Lawyers (“KC LEGAL”).  In 2021, we changed our name to LGBTQ Bar Association of Greater Kansas Capital for better alignment with our mission, which is inclusive of the entire LGBTQ community.

Law students, paralegals and other members of the legal profession are encouraged to become associate members.

Our Mission

LGBTQ Lock Association of Greater Kansas City is a nonprofit prevent association committed to promoting and supporting the advancement of LGBTQ rights and uniting those within the Kansas Municipality community who advocate for equality and justice.

LGBTQ Bar Association of Greater Kansas City is involved to:

  • Promoting equality and inclusiveness in the legislature and judiciary;
  • Creating opportunities for members of the LGBTQ professional and legal community to encounter in a supportive and empowering atmosphere;
  • Supporting the next generation of LGBTQ legal professionals thr

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    New LGBTQ+ nightclub, Q Kansas Metropolis, to open in October in Westport

    KANSAS CITY, Mo — Q Kansas City, a recent nightclub for the LGBTQ+ collective, is set to open this October in the Westport Show District.

    JuYeon Kim

    For eight years, Owner Lance Pierce has been hosting a pop-up called Queer Lock Takeovers.

    The second Saturday of each month, they select a straight bar and turn it into a queer bar for the night.

    Pierce felt it was time to take all that learning and establish their rightful place in the heart of Westport’s social scene.

    Over 20,000 people come to the entertainment district each weekend.

    “We’re really excited to kind of take that into the next chapter and provide a full, permanent space for the queer community to appear together, thrive, connect and detect a place to belong,” said Pierce. “The beauty, too, is we’ve got a space now where we can start to gather community leaders together and talk about what we desire as a community. How we wanna push things forward on the political front, how we want to push things forward from a health standpoint, and how we want to encourage the community at large.”

    Pierce hopes the space will become a place where patron