The UMKC Libraries, our Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA), and UMKC LGBTQIA+ Programs and Services honor Pride month in June with activities that celebrate our LGTBQIA+ students and employees. Join us!
Pride Display in the Library
- June 3 - June 30, 2024 | First Floor, Miller Nichols Library | Library building hours
- Kansas City celebrates Pride! Our display shares Pride activities across the city all month long.
- Display is located between the Robot Café and the Service Desk
- View the ebook reading list
New! Kansas City LGBTQ History Mosaic
- This vivid new piece of ceramic art, representing an array of events and figures from Kansas City's LGBTQ past, is now permanently installed in LaBudde Special Collections.
- LaBudde Special Collections, Miller Nichols Library
- Open by appointment in the summer
Womontown Historic Marker Dedication Ceremony
- June 13, 2024 | 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- 27th Terrace and Charlotte Street, Kansas City, MO
- Join the Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America (GLAMA) to dedicate a new monument commemorating Womontown’s pivotal role in KC’s LGBT history.
Queer in the Archive: The Story of KC Drag
- June 18, 2024 | 2:00 - 3:30 pm
- Room 325, Miller Nichols Library, 800 E. 51st Street, Kansas City, MO
- Stuart Hinds, Curator for Special Collections and Archives and GLAMA founder, will share how we are able to trace the evolution of drag performance in Kansas City's history through newspapers, photos, firsthand accounts, and the legacy of venues, organizations, and activists.
Celebrate our LGBTQIA+ students and employees with fall semester events!
save the date
Visit the new mosaic
AUGUST 2024
Rainbow Lounge Open Haus
AUGUST 19, 2024
lgbtqia+ ice cream social
AUGUST 22, 2024
UMKC Pride Luncheon
OCTOBER 1, 2024
rainbow read-in
OCTOBER 11, 2024
