This Is Us LGBTQ+ | a celebration of queer resilience

"This Is Us LGBTQ+” celebrates National Coming Out Day through workshops and performances focused on queer history and resilience. What is this celebration? Outside of Pride Month, few public events focus on historical conversation, preservation, and celebration of queer folks. This event helps fills that gap during LGBTQ+ History Month, mounting annually each October bringing together multigenerational community members and allies alike. The daytime celebration showcases multigenerational queer voices through two visual-centered workshops & a multidisciplinary arts cabaret. Each event focuses on anecdotes and artistic expressions surrounding queer history and resilience. Upon arrival to workshops and the cabaret, attendees receive a take home memento: the “This Is Us LGBTQ+” journal, bookmark, and pen package. It is a living, breathing engagement tool for attendees, becoming historic documentation. At the end of workshops and the cabaret, attendees also have the option to place their package in a donation container given to GLAMA (Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America), helping document and preserve the historic event. Who made this event possible? • LSH Productions - a Kansas City-based production company creating thought-provoking experiences. • Music to Life - connecting socially conscious musicians with mentors, resources and training needed to realize bold visions for community change. • Rocket Grants (a program from Charlotte Street Foundation, Spencer Museum of Art, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts) - a grant program providing direct funding to artists in the Kansas City region who are creating exceptional, under-the-radar, and artist-centered projects in public spaces.