When there’s a loss in cabin pressure, the first thing you’re instructed to do is put on your own mask. The same principle applies to the horrific times we find ourselves in. So much is coming at us on a macro level, that it’s completely overwhelming. But if you start by getting your own house…
Jerald Stilts Arrested in Connection to the Murder of Bastille’s Chuck Parrino Jr.
The Bastille community is reeling after their missing bartender, Chuck Parrino Jr. was found dead at the Macoupin County home of Jerald Stilts. The punctual Parrino did not report to work on Friday, which alarmed staff and friends. Investigators searching for him found Parrino’s car parked outside of Stilts’ Bunker Hill home. Stilts was known…
2024 Queer-in-Review
Did 2024 represent the pinnacle of LGBTQ acceptance, leaving us with nowhere to go but down? The nearly $215 million in anti-LGBTQ ads this election season, and Trump’s resulting victory, certainly makes it feel that way. Winter is in the air, and Corporate America is dispensing with diversity programs like flip flops at an end-of-summer…
Marler Law Partners to Address Thursday’s LGBTQ Legal Summit
After watching the most conservative Supreme Court in over 90 years set women’s rights back 50 years, and then experiencing a presidential race where Republicans spent 215 million demonizing the LGBTQ community, this month’s shocking Trump victory has led to Nazi marches through the streets, men yelling “Your body, my choice” at women and girls,…
LGBTQ Community Braces For Total Loss of Rights, Purges Gay Trump Voting “Quislings”
November 6 could be forever known as National Betrayal Day as various groups realized that critical parts of their coalitions voted for Trump. Women across social media posted memes reading: “I knew a lot of men hated women, but I didn’t realize how many women hated women.” Black women, who for the first time in…
Felonious Con Dustin Mitchell Convicted in Houston, Sentenced to 11 Years
Dustin Mitchell (Courtesy of the Frisco Police) Prolific con Dustin Mitchell was convicted of Credit Card Fraud and Unlawful Posession of a Firearm by a Felon last week in Houston, where he had been posing as a Rabbi. Houston Police are still investigating a host of Mitchell’s other alleged crimes, which could include…
Project 2024 Event to Rally and Educate LGBTQ+ Community on Project 2025
In an impressive show of unity, virtually all local LGBTQ bar owners are confirmed to attend Thursday’s Project 2024 event, which seeks to educate the community on the wildly unpopular Project 2025— the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for reshaping the federal government and consolidating executive power in a possible second Trump Administration. In 2018, then-President Trump…
STL’s Oldest LGBTQ Bar Celebrates 36 Years on Saturday
Tucked deep within the southeast corner of Tower Grove South is the gritty and glittery Grey Fox Pub (3503 S Spring Ave), which serves as the corner bar for the numerous queer folks residing in the surrounding blocks—a decidedly less-gentrified part of the neighborhood some refer to as “Grey Fox Hills.” Later in the evening, the…
A Booming SIRenity Farms Reigns Supreme in Franklin County
Owners Dennis Duncan and Michael Dekeyser are expanding the all-male campground with new amenities and are opening a new site for the entire LGBTQ+ community.
St. Louis’ Tumara Mahorning Is the Last Bitch Standing
Bar PM’s wildly irreverent drag show director spills a little tea.