Missouri - Backlash to LGBT exhibit shows persistent power of homophobia in Missouri politics

Jeanne Kuang, Jonathan Shorman, Daniel Desrochers

The Kansas City Star

Kansas City, MO

Credit:  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/KC_Streetcar_%2826813012241%29.jpg

please press:  www.kansascity.com

Kansas - Kansas to allow transgender people to change their gender on birth certificates

Dion Lefler, Jonathan Shorman
The Wichita Eagle

Topeka, KS

Credit:  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Blacksmith_shop%2C_railroad%2C_Topeka.jpg

please press:  www.kansas.com

Kansas - Kansas Sen. Barbara Bollier, at odds with GOP over Trump, LGBT issues, turns Democrat

Jonathan Shorman
The Wichita Eagle

Fairway, KS

Credit:  https://www.fairwaykansas.org/vertical/Sites/%7BEBADF035-F52C-4E58-9797-6FBC90BCD122%7D/uploads/IMG_1376_(2).jpg

please press:  www.kansas.com

Kansas - Kelly will reinstate protections for LGBT state workers in Kansas

Jonathan Shorman
The Wichita Eagle

Wichita, KS

Credit:  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Boeing_Wichita.jpg

please press:  www.kansas.com

Brownback rescinds executive order that offered protections on basis of sexual orientation

Jonathan Shorman
cjonline

Credit:  http://i3.cpcache.com/product/70951206/governor_sam_brownback_wall_clock.jpg?height=225&width=225

please press:  http://m.cjonline.com