EQUAL is Kansas City’s for youth-by youth Gay Straight Alliance Network, connecting queer youth across the metropolitan area. EQUAL organizes an annual Empowerment Summit, National Coming Out Day and the Day of Silence. EQUAL will continue and expand its programming as The EQUAL Youth Center. The organizers believe that Kansas City’s queer youth deserve a safe, fun space with daily programming provided by a fiscally strong nonprofit organization with broad-based community support.
Mission Statement:
Young people of all gender identities and sexual orientations deserve access to the tools to be healthy, empowered members of their communities. EQUAL enables the next generation of social justice leaders dedicated to ending all forms of oppression.
