By Joan Lipkin St. Louis friends may recall our bringing gay performance artist Tim Miller to St. Louis years ago to help launch our AC/DC Series at the late St. Marcus Theatre with his groundbreaking piece My Queer Body. It rocked our theatre community and its censorial overseers. The printer didn’t want to print the…
By Thomas Blue | Out In STL What happens when Freddie Mercury and Cher have a love child? According to Anthony Alfaro, you get Tony: a theatrical, glamorous, occasionally sarcastic alter ego with a killer voice, an unforgettable mustache, and absolutely no interest in blending in. On October 27, 2026, New York City’s Tony &…
When I was heavily involved in pet rescue, I worked alongside a strange straight man, and together we became addicted to trapping the throwaway dogs of O’Fallon Park. Apparently, saving dogs wasn’t enough of a hobby for me. I needed a little uproar and City adventure mixed in there, too. Besides saving homeless…
The Sixth Annual History Happy Hour, hosted by Just John on October 26 and benefitting the St. Louis LGBT History Project, brought together an extraordinary gathering of writers, editors, publishers, photographers, broadcasters, and community storytellers whose work documented decades of LGBTQ life in the St. Louis region. More than a reunion, the evening was a…
A bunch of us lesbian queers pile into the “Lesbrorodo,” as I call my very large truck. I feel like a bus driver checking seat belts and yelling, “All aboard!” Watching the shorter lesbians attempt to climb in like the Dukes of Hazzard never gets old. Sometimes, the simple things are what make me laugh…
One of my mother’s older brothers, Paul Monroe Gamble, died in an automobile accident eleven days before Christmas 1959. He was 24. Twenty years later, in January 1979, my mother’s youngest brother, Clifford Lee (Ricky) Gamble, also died in an automobile accident. He was 29, the youngest of eighteen children. Uncle Paul died before I…
Vivent Health’s annual fundraiser returns Oct. 24, with local art, cocktails and a mission to help St. Louis residents living with HIV care for their pets. A beloved pet can be a source of comfort and connection—and the costs of food and veterinary care can become difficult to manage. On Saturday, Oct. 24, St.…
It happens every October. A school board somewhere passes a largely perfunctory LGBTQ+ History Month resolution – without demands, requirements, or enforcement mechanisms – and a dust storm erupts. In September, for example, in a district serving nearly 12,000 youngsters in Fairbanks, Alaska, after listening to eight community members testify in favor of a History…
Thirty-two years ago today – Monday, October 3, 1994 – the first-ever public event (as far as I know) for the nascent and then-named Lesbian and Gay History Month took place at Lucas Hall 100 at the University of Missouri at St. Louis (UMSL), where I was a nighttime graduate student in history while serving…
Bonnie McKee is one bad bitch. She’s fucking fabulous. And, more importantly, she knows how to write a fucking song. If you know Bonnie McKee only as the woman behind some of pop music’s biggest hits, you might miss just how much of an artist she is herself. But standing inside The Pageant this past…
