Missie B's

Missie B's is Kansas City's defining gay bar — the venue that has set the standard for the city's LGBTQ+ nightlife for years and that every gay visitor to Kansas City should experience. The bar operates on West 39th Street, the city's primary gay commercial corridor, and has grown over the years into a full gay entertainment venue: multiple bar areas serving different crowd energies simultaneously, a dance floor with DJ-driven programming, and a drag show schedule that is the best in Kansas City. The drag performers who work Missie B's represent the depth of local talent that Kansas City has developed — a city with a genuine drag culture, not simply performers imported from the coasts. The themed weekly nights — bear nights, leather nights, pop and hip-hop dance nights — cover the range of gay male subcultures and ensure that the bar draws different segments of the community on different evenings. The crowd is the full cross-section of Kansas City's gay community: young gay men on the dance floor, older regulars at the bar, drag fans who came for the show, and the first-time visitors from out of town who were directed here by every recommendation they found. The 39th Street location is central to Midtown Kansas City and easily accessible from downtown, the Westport entertainment district, and the surrounding residential neighbourhoods where much of the city's LGBTQ+ population lives.