Author Archives: Dera Luce

St. Louis Lesbian Bars Are Vanishing. Kristen Goodman Has Some Thoughts on That

St. Louis Lesbian Bars Are Vanishing. Kristen Goodman Has Some Thoughts on That

Lesbian bars have been disappearing across the U.S. for decades, and St. Louis is no exception: In the past five years alone, Novak’s, R Bar, Absolutli Goosed and Lilly’s Music & Social House have all shuttered. We sat down with Kristen Goodman, former co-owner of Lilly’s Music & Social House, to find out why that

Photographer Jen Everett Talks Race, Identity and the Image

Up until this summer, Jen Everett had an ordinary routine. She would wake at 7:30 a.m., go to work as a project engineer for a construction firm and then come home around 5:30 p.m. to her partner and their thirteen-year-old son in south city.  In her bits of spare time, though, she took photographs. And

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