By Novice Sister Pattie O’Pounder On the bright afternoon of March 20, the T-REX Center in downtown St Louis buzzed with energy as faculty and staff from local universities gathered with regional nonprofit leaders for a networking luncheon that aimed to address a pressing issue: the support and protection of LGBTQIA+ students in a political…
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Cocktail Competition Benefiting PROMO to Be Held at Platypus April 13
PROMO is Missouri’s statewide LGBTQ+ public policy and advocacy organization, and a fun way to get acquainted with them and support their critical work is by attending their Merryvale Antigua Cocktail Competition at Platypus on Sunday, April 13 from 2-4 p.m. St. Louis’ finest bartenders will compete in a cocktail showdown that mixes sweet flavors…
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…
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,…
Family Seeks Justice After Jarvis McIntire’s Body Discovered in Texas
The LGBTQ+ St. Louis man went missing days ago during a birthday trip.
The Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights Rages on in Missouri
In 2015, joyful crowds hugged outside of the Supreme Court Building when the Justices inside struck down same-sex marriage bans, making it legal across the country. It was the latest restriction to LGBTQ+ rights to fall after sodomy laws were struck down in 2003 and the military allowed people to serve openly in 2011. For…
Willits: As a Patient at the Transgender Center, I Urge You to Stand Up for Health Care
“She did it for the kids.” Taken in any other context, this might have been a good thing. But this was part of a conversation I overheard in a coffee shop in south city, and it was far from good. Two humans, both presenting as women, were discussing Jamie Reed’s essay calling out the Washington…
Out in STL Protests Anti-LGBTQ Legislation, Gives Out ICON Awards
This march served lewks. Fishnet bodysuits, tiaras and opera masks were just some of the outfits at the first ever It’s All Drag March held in The Grove on Saturday, March 25. At this protest, what people wore meant everything. As one sign read, “I can wear whatever the hell I want to wear!”…
It’s All Drag: New Group Leads March Against Drag Bans This Month
“We are all born naked, and the rest is drag.” -RuPaul Prism owners Sean Abernathy and Jade Sinclair, along with RFT Society Columnist Chris Andoe, and Pride St. Louis’ Jordan Elizabeth Braxton, have formed an ad hoc group called “It’s all drag!” to respond to the nationwide drag bans and other anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being introduced.…
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