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Lindsay Moore of the Kansas City Anti-Violence Project (KCAVP) said that Dee Dee had been living full-time as a woman and therefore should be considered as a woman by the media. 
KCAVP and The Justice Project issued a news release that included the following:
Dee Dee was a friend to many people in the community. KCAVP and The Justice Project offer our sincerest condolences to those grieving this loss. We must stress the absolute necessity for the police and media to respect DeeDees gender identity. The least we can do to honor her memory is to respect her chosen, lived identity.
KCAVP and The Justice Project are also concerned by the use of transphobic language in media coverage of this murder. Transphobic language contributes to a culture which sanctions anti-transgender violence. Together, we must challenge institutional racism, poverty, transphobic attitudes, lack of social services, criminalization of sex work, and other policies that jeopardize our security.

See the full article from “Camp KC”

Retired University of Tulsa professor and cowboy historian Guy Logsdon thinks cowboy churches and ministries have played a significant role in a shift in cowboy culture.
“It’s a freestyle way for cowboys and cattlemen to express themselves without a denominational policy,” he said.
Logsdon says the migration of cowboys toward
At top, Barry Ward of Elbert plays guitar during Sunday services for about 80 people at the National Western Stock Show on Jan. 8. Above, Terry Lewis of Arvada prays with other attendees. (Photos by Kevin Kreck, Special to The Denver Post )
Christianity is a significant and new moral chapter in the cowboy narrative, which historically was even more scandalous than movies are able to portray.
Even though frequent gun battles in the Old West are a Hollywood invention, he says that rampant alcoholism, brawling and prostitution are quite accurate depictions of the time.

See the full article from “Denver Post”

Do you see what we see? It looks like … it’s coming into focus now … a winning caption!

Once you’ve written that potentially winning caption (remember, we like funny), send it to starfyi@gmail.com. Put “1/20 caption contest” in the subject line, and be sure to include your name, city and phone number.

Deadline for entries is 11:59 tonight.

The winning caption scores a $25 gift card. The winner and runners-up will appear here next Friday.

Last week’s winner

A whole lot of entries concerned pole dancing and strip clubs. We’re not sure what that says about our readership. As for the winner, that would be:

• Olga discovers that you really cannot avoid touching winter with a 10-foot pole. (Jeanine Wilson, Raymore)

Runners-up

• “You really want to hang on? Just stick your tongue to the pole! Go on … I double-dog dare you!” (Ed Mease, Leavenworth; others similar)

• The latest round of strip club laws went too far. (Scott Beskow, Kansas City)

• Come heck or high winds …

See the full article from “Kansas City Star”

Stokes visited the residence eight to 12 times. During these visits, he would receive sexual acts or be allowed to watch or participate in torturing the victim. When he visited he brought steaks, hamburgers, jackets, personalized playing cards, lighters, cigarettes, and cash. Among other things, he witnessed the victim being tortured with a crank phone, with electricity shot through devices clamped to her vaginal and anal openings.
Prosecutors say that Stokes began assisting in promoting the victim at the strip clubs. Stokes took photos of her around to the clubs to promote her there. Stokes gave $1,000 so that the victim could be taken for a sexual bondage photo shoot in California for Taboo magazine. Stokes then took a copy of the magazine to promote her at the clubs. The photos in Taboo magazine were extremely mild and did not depict any of the cruel sessions Stokes had witnessed at the residence.

See the full article from “fox4kc.com”

Kenyan L. Jones has been charged with second-degree murder for the Christmas Eve shooting of a transgender woman in Kansas City, Mo.
Darnell D. Pearson, 31, also known as Dee Dee Pearson, was fatally wounded in the December 24 crime. The Kansas City Star reports Jones said he had paid to have sex with Pearson several hours earlier, and after learning she was biologically male, obtained a gun and shot her.
The Advocate notes coverage of the case has upset LGBT activists. Local media have used male pronouns in referring to Pearson, leading to calls from the Kansas City Anti-Violence Project, the Justice Project, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to “respect her chosen, lived identity.” Also, according to local blog Tony’s Kansas City, news outlets have characterized Pearson as a prostitute only on the word of her accused killer. Read more here.

See the full article from “SheWired”

Three Dead Following Violent Holiday Weekend
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three people are dead following a violent holiday weekend. Kansas City police said the three incidents that left three people dead are not related.
The first incident happened around 11 p.m. Saturday. Police said Joseph Jones, 22, died from gunshot wounds. Police found his body near 24th and Denver in Kansas City, Mo., but said they have no suspects in custody at this time.
A short time later police responded to another shooting near 43rd and Harrison in Kansas City, Mo. In this incident, police said Kenyan Jones shot and killed a prostitute after discovering she was actually a man. Police said Darnell Pearson, 31, died outside an apartment building after being shot. Jones has since been charge with second-degree murder.

See the full article from “fox4kc.com”

A Kansas City man who told police he became angry after he realized the prostitute he patronized on Christmas Eve was a man posing as a woman was charged today with the man’s murder.

Meanwhile, Kansas City police continued to investigate a second homicide that also occurred Saturday night.

Kenyan L. Jones, 26, faces charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of Darnell D. Pearson, 31.

According to court documents:

Jones admitted paying to have sexual relations with Pearson believing that Person was a woman. Several hours after the transaction, Jones became aware that Pearson was a man.

Jones told police that he obtained a handgun and approached Pearson in the vicinity of East 46th Street and Troost Avenue. Jones chased Pearson to the entry of an apartment building at 1006 East 43rd Street where, Jones said, he “popped him.”

Police found Pearson’s body at about 11:25 p.m. A witness who had called 911 told police she heard several shots and saw a man in a hoodie runn …

See the full article from “Kansas City Star”

I’ve had reason to notice. I once needed a room of my own. And I know on a personal level how laws can harm those they intend to protect. I ran away from home at 16 years old because the streets were safer than my family. Unfortunately it was Canada in December and sleeping in a church with an open-door policy was a stop-gap measure at best. I needed a room with heat and a door that locked.
I was lucky because I was 16-years-old. Child labor laws designed to protect children from exploitation did not apply to me, and so I was able to get a minimum-wage job in a furniture store, filing years worth of boxed papers. If I had been “protected” either as a child or a female from being able to negotiate for less money than other applicants demanded, I would not have been able to to rent a room in a boardinghouse. Instead, I would have been “protected” into begging, stealing, dealing drugs, or sex work. Like most runaways, I would not have “turned myself” into the authorities known as social services.

See the full article from “The Moral Liberal”

A Nov. 25 editorial, “An embarrassing residency case, ” said, “This case brings further shame on the Municipal Court, where (Judge Elena) Franco and other judges are paid almost $145,000 a year – more than Missouri Supreme Court judges – to handle cases involving mere city ordinances.”
The problem is the quote, “to handle cases involving mere city ordinances.” Most people’s contact with the legal system is in the Municipal Court as a defendant, victim or witness. It is not unusual for Kansas City’s Municipal Court dockets to number 800 to 1,200 a day.
More importantly, every day the judges hear cases involving domestic violence, assaults, stealing, drugs, prostitution, property damage, driving while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, driving while suspended, accident cases and leaving the scene of injury accidents.

See the full article from “Kansas City Star (blog)”

Shelton added that he hopes Mayor Sly James shuts down the camp.
The problem with Shelton’s claims is that they aren’t backed by anyone else.
The Kansas City police, who make daily stops at the camp, haven’t made one arrest for drugs or prostitution at Occupy Kansas City.
“I must have been going 2 wrong rallies,” one protester wryly responded to the allegation on Twitter. “I haven’t been offered 1 prostitute or joint.”
That mirrors my experience. I spent a day at the camp for last week’s cover story and didn’t see anyone using or hooking.
Tyler Crane, an occupier who has mostly lived at the camp since it started on September 30, disputes Shelton’s claims.
“There’s no pimps here,” Crane says. “There’s no hos here. To me, that’s just laughable.

See the full article from “Pitch Weekly”