Kansas Cy played an important role the early gay rights movement, even predatg Stonewall. Here's how you n honor LGBTQ history Kansas Cy this Pri Month.
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Kansas Cy Gay Bars and Clubs. Gay-Friendly KC: A Weekend the Cy of Fountas. But what many people don’t know is that Kansas Cy played an important role the “homophile movement, ” the early gay rights movement that predated Stonewall.
In 1966, Kansas Cy hosted the first natnal homophile was a time the not-so-distant past when LGBTQ folks uld not easily be “out” public. Gay and Lbian Archive of Mid-Ameri, UMKC The Jewel Box at 3219 Troost Avenue Kansas Cy, Missouri, was a nightclub known for s drag shows that began the late 1950s. While the 1950s are monly thought of as an tolerant time, Kansas Cy actually had an active gay bar scene this era near Troost Avenue and Lwood Boulevard.
“Subject to police harassment, the gay bar district advertised through word of mouth, ” acrdg to historian Kev Scharl. Scharl says the Colony Club near 33rd and Troost Avenue was “the most famo gay bar. ”Stuart Hds, the curator of the Gay and Lbian Archiv of Mid Ameri (GLAMA) discsed the signifince of the Jewel Box on KCUR’s Up to Date June 2021.