(The Lion) — A full slate of LGBTQ events and recommended materials is being promoted by the Kansas City Public Library.

Programming includes author talks, book clubs, curated film selections and community resource guides – all centered around sexual orientation and gender identity.

Notably, MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart is slated to speak on Thursday about his memoir, Yet Here I Am: Lessons From a Black Man’s Search for Home. The book focuses on his personal experiences as a gay black man in media and politics.

The library’s pop-up book group will meet June 18 to discuss Let Them Stare, a young adult novel involving a haunted purse and themes of self-expression and queer identity.

Meanwhile, a locally focused event on June 25 will explore 1970s gay activism in Lawrence, Kansas.

“The story of the early struggle for LGBTQ+ rights has typically been told from the perspective of coastal cities like New York, San Francisco, and Miami,” the library’s website says. “But Lawrence, Kansas, was also a hotspot for activist organizations in the 1960s, and the work that was done there reverberated across the country.”

The Missouri library has also organized its book recommendations by color, matching each reading list to a stripe on the Pride flag.

Each color represents a different theme, the library says. For example, red represents life, turquoise represents art and magic and purple represents spirit.

The promotion comes as libraries in other blue cities recognize Pride Month.

Public libraries in Boston, Massachusetts, West Hollywood, California, and Lafayette, Colorado, will host Drag Queen Story Hours, The Lion previously reported. Boston Public Library branches will host 10 such events this month.