Tomorrow night, dance until your eyebrows merge at The Night Owl. The swanky spot above Tree House, the vegetarian restaurant on South Grand, is hosting its second Frida Kahlo-themed dance party for LGBTQIA folx & friends. The queer Mexican painter didn’t let her physical challenges get her down. She zhushed up the corsets and crutches…
Women’s March for Truth
Put your marching shoes on, because last year’s Women’s March was no one-off. Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the second St. Louis Women’s March for Truth steps off from Aloe Plaza on Market Street. The route wraps up at Luther Ely Smith Plaza behind the Old Courthouse. The slate of speakers is stacked with impressive women…
MTUG’s Telethon: “Community Made it Happen”
Last week’s 24-hour fundraising telethon by the Metro Trans Umbrella Group was the talk of the internet—it was such a cool throwback idea, updated for the social media age. “Old-school fun with a trans queer twist,” says MTUG’s executive director and co-founder Sayer Johnson. “Community made it happen.” So, how did it turn out? Well,…
At Last, a St. Louis Cycling Club Free of Alpha Males
Death. Taxes. Dudely bro-dawgs monopolizing bike rides. Some things you must endure, but others you can adjust. For more than four years running, a group of women has converged on the first Monday of every month for a social bike ride: the Monthly Cycle. They pedal a different fifteen-mile route each time through a mix…
Lea DeLaria on Jazz, Trump & Metro East’s LGBTQ History
If all you know about Lea DeLaria is her gimlet-eyed prison persona Big Boo on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, well, truthfully, you’re off to an OK start. Boo brings butch sexiness into the mainstream in a way we haven’t much seen before, which is quite cool. But there’s so much more to know!…
World AIDS Day 2017
Today is World AIDS Day, and it’s worth taking a moment to take stock. First celebrated in 1988, it’s a day for people worldwide to show solidarity against the disease. The breathtaking devastation of the epidemic’s mysterious and stigma-filled beginnings in the 1980s is not today’s reality. Fewer people are dying and we understand far…
Ericka Hart’s Art is Resistance and Yours Can Be, Too
This weekend, expand your ideas about what art can do in a conversation with Ericka Hart. Hart is a queer black femme who describes herself as a kinky, poly activist and sexuality educator—as well as a cancer warrior, after surviving a diagnosis of breast cancer at 28. Sex Positive St. Louis and Afrosexology are co-presenting…
“Queer Kids Run This Town”
The sentiment, expressed in graffiti, was straightforward, cheeky, and just a little angry: “Queer Kids Run This Town,” scrawled across the front of a building in Toronto. “I found that super inspiring,” says Jared Rourke, who came across a photo of it online. “Damn straight we do!” he says. “The people I know in St.…
Time Won’t Give Me Time: Notes From a Queer Childhood at Flood Plain
Growing up queer can be so isolated and so isolating. Compare notes with Brandon Anschultz through his exhibition “Time Won’t Give Me Time,” the first show at brand-new non-profit gallery Flood Plain. It opens this weekend. The show, interrogating his 80s childhood, features new works by Anschultz, who has previously worked in formal yet non-narrative…
Missouri Courage Scholarship Adds Board of Directors
Sometimes, truly great things emerge from the muck. The Missouri Courage Scholarship, for LGBT students and allies, is definitely one of those things, and it’s come a long way in a short time. This week, the scholarship announced the convening of its first Board of Directors, after two years in existence and more than $25,000…