LGBTQ+

Organizers expect 5,000 attendees during a day of events that starts with a parade through downtown Springfield.

The event memorialized the lives of transgender people lost to violence in the last year

The latest data show that over the past decade, roughly half of Springfield Public Schools students received free and reduced lunches. A key school board vote this week affects those students.

Several events are planned throughout the month, including the PRIDE Fair.

This week, the City of Springfield’s diversity chief is meeting with officials from Kansas City about LGBT equality.

JORDAN EAGLES: ONE BLOOD will open in late September

The 2023 Ozarks Pridefest was held June 10 with a parade and celebration on the square in downtown Springfield.

Ozarks Public Radio has been documenting the lived experiences of transgender people in southwest Missouri. In the final part of this series, trans individuals share their responses to what they perceive as persecution in Missouri and around the country. A note for our listeners: This report contains frank discussion of sexuality, gender and acute political strife.

Ozarks Public Radio has been working to document the voices of transgender people living in southwest Missouri for this two-part series. A note for our listeners: This report contains frank discussion of sexuality and gender.

The move comes eight years after city voters repealed an LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance passed by City Council in 2014.