This video showcases several performances from the 2023 Kansas City Pride Festival, including live music from Zava and Public Universal Friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUfR-b7bkQ
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You can learn more about Zava, and listen to more of his music, on his YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@thisiszava/videos
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You can learn more about the Public Universal Friend band on their website.
https://publicuniversalfriend.band/
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CHRYSALIS now available on vinyl SPOTIFY / APPLE MUSIC / BANDCAMP artwork by Madeline Devries / Jody Galadriel Friend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZdL6rRYvG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLdr0xGevDI https://youtu.be/NHkCWFCbVm0 https://youtu.be/Ep77LDWGuSk "... understanding that feeling of what it’s like to come out and live your truth openly, after you felt like you had to hide it for a long time… it’s liberating and…
This video shows more of Zava's performances from the 2023 Kansas City Pride Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uc4iccGUAA
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Zava’s medley of songs included “Wrong,” an original song that he discussed in an interview with Confessional Magazine.
https://confessionalmagazine.com/zava/
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Zava's 2023 KC Pride performance also featured "H.O.E.", which stands for "Heaven on Earth."
"H.O.E." was written by Zava and Giuseppe Sorce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqYP0tTVEio
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I wrote a short blog post about Zava for my blog, Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/06/great-performance-from-pridefest-2023.html
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The 2023 Kansas City Pride Festival also included performances by Frenchie Davis, Doobie V, and Ty Herndon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhzvhk5Q4q4
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Herndon, a country singer who came out as gay in 2014, performed a version of his popular song, “What Mattered Most,” a sad love song.
The original lyrics concerned a straight relationship, but the version Herndon performed reflected a gay one.
Herndon released the original song in 1995. He released the new version in 2019.
https://instinctmagazine.com/countrys-ty-herndon-dropped-a-gay-love-song/
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People article from June 2019:
"Ty Herndon Releases New Version of His 1995 Breakthrough Country Hit — with New Pronouns"
https://people.com/country/ty-herndon-new-version-what-mattered-most/
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People article from June 2022:
"Country Star Ty Herndon on Addiction, a Suicide Attempt and How Coming Out Saved His Life"
https://people.com/country/ty-herndon-on-addiction-suicide-attempt-coming-out/
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As he tries to make a comeback in Nashville (his new album Jacob is out July 15), Ty Herndon opens up in a very revealing interview about the times he's faced death — and how he's now facing his own truth
You can listen to more from Doobie V on Spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3RwCHvv8k7oOWFwTyEncSA
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You can listen to Frenchie Davis on Spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6DzbI9C7TxRzfCAPLe02pW
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I created a video using photos of merchandise at the 2023 KC Pride Festival, including several shirts with amusing pro-LGBT messages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9R9UcGpMas
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I created a compilation video of the 2023 Kansas City Pride Parade.
The parade, which was gigantic, lasted about an hour and a half.
I recommend watching the video on a larger screen so you can more easily see the pride flags, outfits, and floats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV-BoE-aGZ4
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#LGBT #Pride #Parade #US #Gay #Lesbian #Bisexual #Pansexual #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Genderfluid #Agender #Missouri #Kansas
Here is an article I wrote about the 2023 Kansas City Pride Festival.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/06/kansas-city-pride-festival.html
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#Trans #Transgender #LGBT #Gay #Lesbian #Bisexual #Pansexual #Pride #PrideMonth
I wrote an article about the rare pride flags I observed at the 2023 Kansas City Pride Festival.
I discussed the Queer, Gay Man, Bear, Agender, Asexual, Demisexual, Omnisexual, Polyamorous, Leather, and Pony pride flags.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/06/rare-pride-flags.html
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I discussed the pride flags that appeared in the 2023 Little Apple Pride Parade in Manhattan, Kansas.
Those flags were the Rainbow, Intersex, Genderfluid, Pansexual, Bisexual, Transgender, Powercat Rainbow, Lesbian, Progress, and Nonbinary pride flags.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/05/little-apple-pride-celebration.html
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Acrobats from KC Aerial Arts glided gracefully through the air at the 2024 Kansas City Pride Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo4CDL1FGQI
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I created a compilation of entertainers from the 2024 Kansas City Pride Festival.
Kerri Colby, a trans woman who competed in RuPaul’s Drag Race, performed on stage.
Her performance was sexy enough that you might not want to watch the video at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kLstoX9L4
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#LGBT #Trans #Transgender #Kansas #Missouri #Pride #PrideMonth #Lesbian
Here is a video I created of the 2024 Kansas City Pride Parade.
Watching the video on a larger screen allows the colorful floats, flags, and outfits to be more easily seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZd6YRItY3w
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#LGBT #Pride #Parade #US #Kansas #Missouri #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Pansexual #Transgender #Nonbinary #Genderfluid #Asexual
I wrote an article about the 2024 Kansas City Pride Festival.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/07/kansas-city-pridefest-2024.html
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#LGBT #KansasCity #Missouri #Kansas #US #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Pansexual #Transgender #Nonbinary #Genderfluid
I wrote an article about the rare pride flags displayed during the 2024 Kansas City Pride Festival.
I discussed the Asexual, AroAce, Transmasculine, Intersex, Gay Man, Leather, Drag, Eight Stripe Rainbow, Straight Ally, Rainbow American, and Rainbow Mexican flags.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/07/rare-pride-flags-at-kc-pride-2024.html
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#LGBT #Pride #PrideMonth #Asexual #AroAce #Transmasculine #Intersex #Leather #Drag #Ally #US #USA #Mexico
My article on the 2024 Little Apple Pride Celebration discussed the flags that appeared in the pride parade.
They were the Rainbow, Progress, Intersex Inclusive Progress, Powercat Rainbow, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgender, Lesbian, Asexual, Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Demigirl, Demiboy, and Two Spirit pride flags.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/06/little-apple-pride-2024.html
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#Rainbow #Progress #LGBT #Intersex #Bisexual #Pansexual #Transgender #Lesbian #Asexual #Nonbinary #Genderfluid #Demigirl #Demiboy #TwoSpirit
My article on the 2025 Little Apple Pride Celebration discussed the Philadelphia, Gay Man, and Demisexual pride flags.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/05/little-apple-pride-2025.html
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Do you have strong opinions on the designs of the various Rainbow pride flags?
Tell the world by completing and sharing a tiermaker where you can rank them all!
https://tiermaker.com/create/rainbow-pride-flags-15229977
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Pride Month has arrived.
Rank 23 Sexuality Pride Flags in Tiermaker.
Can you identify them all?
https://tiermaker.com/create/sexuality-pride-flags-15229977
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#Bisexual #Pansexual #Panromantic #Omnisexual #Polysexual #Gay #Lesbian #Asexual #Bear #Demisexual #Aromantic #AroAce #Polyamorous #Leather #Pony
How well do you know your gender pride flags?
Rank 13 of the most common in Tiermaker.
https://tiermaker.com/create/gender-pride-flags-15229977
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#Transgender #Nonbinary #Genderfluid #Agender #Intersex #Drag #Demiboy #Demigirl #Transmasculine #Transfeminine #Genderqueer #Femboy
All together now.
You can rank 51 LGBT pride flags all in one place.
I have discussed almost all of them on my blog in the past.
If there are any you would like to learn more about, let me know.
https://tiermaker.com/create/lgbt-pride-flags-15229977
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#LGBT #Gay #Lesbian #Bisexual #Pansexual #Transgender #Nonbinary #Genderfluid #Pride #PrideMonth
You can find other Tier Maker Templates I have created through the link below.
They include: Kansas politicians, Georgia politicians, Texas politicians, Missouri politicians, California politicians, Liberal Pundits and MSNBC Personalities, and US Representatives.
https://tiermaker.com/user/15229977
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#Kansas #Missouri #Georgia #Texas #California #MSNBC #Congress #House #Politics #US
I created a guide for the most common sexual and romantic orientations and their pride flags.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/09/sexual-and-romantic-orientations.html
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#Gay #Lesbian #Bisexual #Pansexual #Asexual #Demisexual #Aromantic #Panromantic #AroAce
I created a guide for the most common transgender and nonbinary identity terms.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/10/gender-identity-and-biological-sex.html
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#Transgender #Nonbinary #Genderqueer #Genderfluid #Agender #Transmasculine #Transfeminine #Intersex #Tomboy #Femboy
I have published many articles that examine the prevalence of LGBT identities.
I call this series, "LGBT by the Numbers."
You can navigate the 14 articles in Season 1 through its Table of Contents.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/02/lgbt-by-numbers-table-of-contents.html
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#LGBT #Gay #Lesbian #Bisexual #Transgender #Nonbinary #Genderfluid #Agender #Intersex
Season 2 of "LGBT by the Numbers" covered the results of Gallup's 2023 survey on LGBT identity in the US.
Season 2 contained eight articles.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/05/lgbt-by-numbers-season-2.html
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"Generations by LGBT Identities" examined each generation of US adults, individually, and compared the percentage of people within that generation who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
"Generations by LGBT Identities" was part of Season 2 of "LGBT by the Numbers."
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/04/generations-by-lgbt-identities.html
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#LGBT #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Transgender #GenZ #Millennials #GenX #Boomers #SilentGen
Season 4 of "LGBT by the Numbers" covered the results of Gallup's 2024 survey on LGBT identity in the US.
There are three articles in Season 4, which you can navigate through its Table of Contents.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/03/lgbt-by-numbers-season-4.html
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A higher percentage of each generation identifies as LGBT than the generation that came before.
This pattern has held true every time Gallup has asked Americans if they are LGBT.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/03/lgbt-identity-by-generation-2012-24.html
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#LGBT #USA #GenZ #Millennials #GenX #Boomers #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Transgender
Season 3 of "LGBT by the Numbers" examines the past decade of results from the Gender Census, an annual global survey of nonbinary people.
Season 3 is ongoing.
"Top of the Charts" discussed the most common terms nonbinary people use to describe themselves.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/01/top-of-charts.html
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The most recent article in Season 3, "Genderfluid and Agender," examines the two most common specific nonbinary genders.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/04/genderfluid-and-agender.html
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The following passage can be found in "Genderfluid and Agender."
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In the years ahead, you will continue to hear conservative Republican politicians rally crowds of profoundly ignorant people by proclaiming, “there are only two genders.”
On cue, these crowds will erupt into thunderous applause at the prospect of someone telling them they are wise for being so close minded.
Many people, listening to this, will know the conservative politician is being a transphobic asshole, but for the life of them, they won’t know what those additional genders are.
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Because you read this series, you will know a lot more than that.
The group of people disparaged by these remarks are nonbinary people, who have a gender identity that isn’t exclusively male or female.
About 1% of US adults are nonbinary.
The most common identities used by nonbinary people are umbrella terms, like queer, transgender, and genderqueer.
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Some people use nonbinary to describe their gender, without also using a more specific term.
The most common specific nonbinary identities are genderfluid and agender.
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So not only will you know that the conservative politician is wrong, but why.
You will also know the basic facts about the ideas and identities they are looking to disparage and suppress.
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In addition to hearing these identity terms, you might also see the colorful pride flags associated with them.
The most common gender identity flags are the transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid flags.
I discussed these flags in "Gender Identity and Biological Sex."
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/10/gender-identity-and-biological-sex.html
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This pride month, join me on a tour of my LGBT Button Collection.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/03/lgbt-button-collection.html
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#LGBT #Transgender #Nonbinary #Genderfluid #Genderqueer #Panromantic #Kansas
I discussed additional pins I acquired in a more recent article for Meticulous Musings.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/09/new-lgbt-buttons.html
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This article examines specific LGBT identities, individually, and compares the percentage of each generation that identifies with that identity.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/04/lgbt-identities-by-generation-continued.html
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#LGBT #Bisexual #Gay #Lesbian #Transgender #GenZ #Millennials #GenX #Boomers
"LGBT Identity by Gender" examines the percent of men and women in each generation that identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/04/lgbt-identity-by-gender.html
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#LGBT #Gender #Men #Women #Bisexual #Gay #Lesbian #Transgender #Trans #Nonbinary #US #USA #Statistics
If you really want to nerd out with me, you can read my article about the acronym "LGBT" and its synonyms.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/01/thoughts-on-acronym.html
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#LGBT #LGBTQIA #Queer #MOGAI #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Transgender #Intersex #Asexual #Aromantic #Agender #Allies #Genderfluid
I covered the lawsuits that led the Biden administration to adopt policies that allowed transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans to receive passports that accurately reflect their identities.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-fight-for-accurate-identity.html
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#Transgender #Trans #Nonbinary #Intersex #Passport #Biden #LGBT #Identity #Documents
On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order that prevents transgender and nonbinary Americans from receiving passports that accurately reflect their gender identity.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/02/an-endless-series-of-outrages.html
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Lambda Legal has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of seven transgender Americans, including one who is nonbinary, who seek to receive passports that accurately reflect who they are.
https://lambdalegal.org/case/schlacter-v-us-dept-of-state/
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Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven transgender U.S. citizens, including one who is nonbinary, challenging the Trump administration’s policy denying them U.S. passports with accurate sex designations. The discriminatory passport policy exposes transgender U.S. citizens to harassment, abuse, and discrimination, in some cases endangering them abroad or preventing them from traveling, by...
In this article, I compare the number of US adults who are LGBT, bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender, to the populations of US states.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-many-americans-are-lgbt-2024-update.html
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#LGBT #USA #Bisexual #Gay #Lesbian #Transgender #Pride #PrideMonth
The percent of Americans who identify as LGBT has increased every year Gallup has surveyed US adults about their sexualities and gender identities.
In its most recent annual report, the percent of Americans who identify as LGBT increased by the most it ever has, since Gallup began tracking LGBT identity in 2012.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/02/gallup-93-of-americans-are-lgbt.html
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Jason Beets
