Lea Hopkins (born 1944)[1] is an American LGBT rights activist and poet from Missouri, best known for founding Kansas City's pride parade.
[6] In August 1980, she was a featured speaker at the Southeastern Conference of Lesbians and Gay Men in Memphis, Tennessee.
[9] In subsequent years, Hopkins worked for GLAAD and was an advisory board member of the Lesbian and Gay Community Centre in the neighborhood of Westport.
[10][11] In the 1990s, Hopkins served as a spokeswoman for GLAAD on "Out There", a public access program by and about queer people from Kansas City.
[10] In 2022, Hopkins was named Grand Marshal of that year's Kansas City Pride parade.