The EQUAL Youth Center
Kansas City's Queer Activist Youth Center
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Events & Outreach
Upcoming Events
One of the best ways EQUAL can connect with youth is to participate in city-wide events where we partner with other LGBTQ-friendly organizations. Often times, queer youth are left out of important LGBTQ events, so EQUAL makes sure your voice is represented. If we have events coming up, you'll find them here:
Here's a sampling of the various events we have tabled at or helped organize:
One of the best ways EQUAL can connect with youth is to participate in city-wide events where we partner with other LGBTQ-friendly organizations. Often times, queer youth are left out of important LGBTQ events, so EQUAL makes sure your voice is represented. If we have events coming up, you'll find them here:
- February 27th at UMKC, EQUAL Empowerment Summit is an exciting day-long event for Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), queer youth and straight allies, and educators across the Kansas City metro area. To register for the EQUAL Empowerment Summit, please click here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XYDPPKW
Here's a sampling of the various events we have tabled at or helped organize:
- November 21, KKFI's Tenth Voice: EQUAL and Kansas City's Queer Youth
- November 17, Town Hall on Sex Education hosted by Planned Parenthood
- November 16-21, TransFest hosted by UMKC's Queer Alliance
- November 11, Diversity Training for Blue Valley School District
- October 23, Counter Protest to Westboro Baptist Church and the Phelps Family organized by Shawnee Mission North GSA
- October 18, OutFest hosted by the LGCC of KC
- October 12, The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later hosted by KC Rep
- October 11, EQUAL Night at Palomino hosted by KC Rep
- September 17, ACLU Discussion: The State of Affairs for Kansas City's Queer Youth
- September 13, EQUAL Night at Into the Woods hosted by KC Rep
- August 19, Pride Planning Committee hosted by Show Me Pride
- August 13, Back to School Fair hosted by the Irene H. Ruiz Biblioteca de las Americas
- June 26-July 2, Kansas City Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
- June 6, KC Pride Festival hosted by Show Me Pride
- April 25, AidsWalk KC hosted by the AIDS Service Foundation of GKC
- April 17, EQUAL's Breaking of the Silence at the JC Nichols Foundation and MCC Spirit of Hope
- February 21, EQUAL Youth Empowerment Summit, EQUAL's Annual Signature Event