Author Archives: Tom Epplin

Map of Tower Grove Pride

The Realest Guide to Tower Grove Pride

The Realest Guide to Tower Grove Pride

Since its rebirth in 2013, September’s Tower Grove Pride has been a dearly anticipated cap to STL’s summer Pride festivities. What started as a fête champêtre of neighbors and friends from Tower Grove Park’s surrounding villes sharing a meal and a dance and perusing a handful of artists’ tents has blossomed over the ensuing years.

Jim Andris at a 1980 pride festival in St. Louis. | COURTESY ST. LOUIS LGBT HISTORY PROJECT

Guide to Pride in and Around St. Louis

From Pride Month to Queer Year, your quintessential LGBTQ+ community event guide for 2025 Whether you’re seeking Family picnic vibes or an all-night prance-a-thon, summer love or a cuddle puddle, a drag bonanza or a rainbow-bedizened parade, St. Louis and its surrounding area has something queer brewing for all members of the LGBTQ+ community this

Hundreds March on Market for International Transgender Day of Visibility

By Tom Epplin A unified front of hundreds of transgender people, leatherfolk, queers, and the allies who love them assembled on Kiener Plaza Monday evening to march down Market Street in celebration of the International Transgender Day of Visibility. Chants of “Whose streets? Our streets,” “No justice, no peace,” and “United we stand, divided we

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