"Save the Indian: A story of two-spirit, sacred people, Native queers": http://www.debtaylor.com/deb/articles/prentice.html. Prentice Crawford talks about being President of the Student Body at Haskell as well as Native culture and being gay. After this article, which appeared in "The Liberty Press" in December 1999, was published, Crawford suffered major backlash and was eventually forced to resign as President: http://www.debtaylor.com/deb/articles/preditorial.html ("Prentice Gets the Shaft").

"Nightmare in Gage Park: Max Movsovitz’s Road to Same-Sex Justice for Kansans": http://www.debtaylor.com/max/maxnew.html. This is the story of Kansan Max Movsovitz and his 3-year struggle with the Kansas legal system as he challenged the constitutionality of the Topeka’s "Solicitation of Sodomy" ordinance and the Kansas Sodomy law.

"Addicted to Hate": http://www.rslevinson.com/gaylesissues/features/collect/phelps/bl_phelpsmain.htm. This is the story of Fred Phelps, a Baptist minister and disbarred lawyer who lives in Topeka and pickets all things gay or suspected gay. Phelps says that all homosexuals are going to Hell because they are pre-destined to. When a reporter asked Phelps' estranged daughter-in-law "why kick them in the shins if they can't be saved," she stated that Fred would not be able to answer that question because she knows he's not trying to save anyone. "For his own secret reasons, he needs to hurt people, and he's chosen homosexuals." Reacting to a joint statement condemning his anti-gay activities that was signed by 47 Topeka area religious leaders, Phelps, in a letter to "The Advocate," a national lgbt magazine, wrote: "I love it. I'm a Baptist preacher, and that means I'm a hate preacher."

Gay marriage articles printed in the "Lawrence Journal-World": http://www2.ljworld.com/news/politics/kansas_legislature/gay_marriage/. This section is a good resource for keeping up with gay marriage issues in Kansas and, in many cases, the U.S. and abroad.

Sodomy laws in Kansas: http://www.sodomylaws.org/usa/kansas/.

Why sodomy laws matter: http://www.aclu.org/getequal/whymatter.html. This article shows how bad laws, even if they are not enforced, can be influenced to create more bad law and create negative stigmas toward a class of people.

Right wing groups: http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3147. These people spend a great deal of their time fighting against lgbt rights.

HRC Kansas State Laws with respect to lgbts: http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Kansas1&CONTENTID=21129&TEMPLATE=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=67.

These links were checked for accuracy on: August 31, 2006.

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