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When younger, Senior Special Collections Librarian Michael Wells read about Kansas City history and sought to experience historic places firsthand. He still does this and recommends it to others.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated each year in June — sparked by the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York’s Greenwich Village, a tipping point for the gay rights movement in the United States.
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