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LGBTQ issues

After more than four hours of public comment and council discussion, the Shawnee city council on Monday voted 5-2 to adopt a nondiscrimination ordinance that provides legal protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Councilmembers Eric...
After a marathon meeting that saw more than 50 people speak and deliberations extend into the early morning hours, the Shawnee city council committee on Monday voted 5-2 to direct staff to draft a non-discrimination ordinance. Councilmembers Eric Jenkins and...
Leawood on Monday became the largest city in Johnson County thus far to adopt a non-discrimination ordinance that provides legal protections for LGBTQ+ individuals. The ordinance gives people who believe they have faced employment or housing discrimination as a...
The Lenexa city council is planning to go behind closed doors this week to discuss legal issues related to enforcement of the kind of non-discrimination ordinances adopted by several Shawnee Mission-area cities over the past years. Lenexa council is scheduled...
Earlier this year, the Overland Park City Council approved a resolution voicing the governing body’s support for a state-level bill that would offer legal protection to LGBTQ+ individuals. At the time, city leaders including Mayor Carl Gerlach indicated that the...
The city of Shawnee will become the next northeast Johnson County municipality to discuss a possible non-discrimination ordinance offering legal protections for LGTBQ+ individuals. Councilmembers Stephanie Meyer and Lisa Larson-Bunnell made posts on Twitter last week noting that discussion of...
Mission Hills on Monday became the seventh city in the Shawnee Mission area to pass a non-discrimination ordinance that provides legal protections for individuals on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Mission Hills passage of the ordinance comes...
Before the city of Lenexa takes any action on a potential non-discrimination ordinance to create legal protections for LGBTQ residents and employees, the city council is waiting to see what the U.S. Supreme Court decides on three civil rights...
After United Methodist Church leaders voted to uphold the church’s ban on same sex marriages and on LGBTQ individuals serving in the clergy, Asbury United Methodist Church is exploring the process of disaffiliating with the denomination. Nothing official is decided,...
Each legislative session, we provide the Shawnee Mission area’s elected officials with the chance to share their thoughts about what’s happening in the state capitol. Rep. Brett Parker, Rep. Brandon Woodard and Sen. Pat Pettey are scheduled to send...
Two weeks after more than 1,000 people — including hundreds of St. Ann Catholic Church parishioners — signed a petition urging the church and the local archdiocese to reconsider the decision to deny admission to the kindergarten-aged child of a same...
Mission Hills continued its discussion on crafting a non-discrimination ordinance Monday, with much of the conversation focused on comparing language already passed by neighboring communities. Mission, Prairie Village, Merriam, and Roeland Park have already passed NDOs- which grant legal protections...