This past weekend — August 23 and 24, 2025 — Tower Grove Park blossomed into a global village as the Festival of Nations welcomed more than 100,000 visitors to celebrate culture in its most vibrant form . Far from being a “melting pot” where individual flavors disappear, this year’s festival was a hearty stew,…
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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…
Family Seeks Justice After Jarvis McIntire’s Body Discovered in Texas
The LGBTQ+ St. Louis man went missing days ago during a birthday trip.
Dustin Mitchell Bound for Texas State Penitentiary
This story is an update to Dustin Does Dallas. After years of getting off easy in St. Louis there was much speculation that Dustin Mitchell would skate by in Texas as well, and a five year deferred sentence for the charges he faced in Collin County gave an initial indication that might have been the…
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,…