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[Lori]

Musician Chely Wright to open LGBT center in KC
The Associated Press
"LIKEME Organization, a nonprofit group Wright started, is opening a community center in Kansas City this weekend that will serve as a place for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their families and friends to meet up..."

[Lori]

The LikeMe Lighthouse: A New Beacon of Hope for Kansas City's LGBT Residents
Huffington Post
I'm at 27000 feet, flying high to Kansas City, the city where I was born, for the grand opening of a brand new center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people called the LikeMe Lighthouse. Although it was a small group of us who had...

[Gennee]

This is great news. I was stationed in Kansas in the early 70s and passed through KC numerous times.

[Bonnie]

The first site is no longer available. The second one still is.  Yes, we still need brick and mortar places and more of them.  Every major city should have one.  The internet is great and I think forums like this are very important because we can't all get to these physical centres for whatever reason.  Isolation can be very destructive and even being part of a virtual community can be life saving.

Bonnie