Black Pride STL is celebrating 30 years with an extravaganza at the historic Grey Fox Pub on May 31. A whopping 14 entertainers will take to the stage, including the reigning King of Pride STL 2025, Semaj Mazzaratie-Evermore and Mx. Metro Trans Umbrella Group 2025, ZeLucy Leone Fur. Board member Lydia Baker, who is also…
There’s a kind of strength that doesn’t roar. It doesn’t stomp its feet or shatter glass ceilings in a blaze of thunder. It whispers. It steadies. It holds. It’s a gentle magic. In a culture obsessed with dominance, productivity, and spectacle, softness is often dismissed as weakness. But in magical and spiritual traditions, gentleness can…
21c Museum Hotel St. Louis invites the community to celebrate Pride month during their Pop Stars! Pride Prom on Friday, June 13 from 7pm-11pm supporting monthly Community Impact partner, Metro Trans Umbrella Group (MTUG). MTUG is a non-profit organization created by and for the St. Louis trans community that aims to unite trans, genderqueer, androgynous,…
After clinching back-to-back victories on Top Chef Seasons 19 and 20, Chef Buddha Lo, a native Australian, opened Hüso in February 2025. Situated in Tribeca, you enter through Marky’s Caviar, a boutique renowned for its premium selections, including Lo’s own Saint Urgeon line. The restaurant’s name, derived from the Latin term for Beluga sturgeon, pays…
When there’s a loss in cabin pressure, the first thing you’re instructed to do is put on your own mask. The same principle applies to the horrific times we find ourselves in. So much is coming at us on a macro level, that it’s completely overwhelming. But if you start by getting your own house…
I’ve been thinking a lot about rest lately. Not collapse. Not zoning out. But real, intentional rest. The kind that lets your nervous system exhale and your spirit come back into your body. And let me be honest—it’s hard. As a queer, trans, neurodivergent witch, I’ve spent most of my life running on survival mode.…
Never has an intellectual exercise had such heart. The allegory is clear: two adults, deep into the routine of their second act, fighting to remain independent, resisting nostalgia, and yet slowly, inevitably, slipping into the patterns we all recognize. That’s where the play begins. It is the story of two robots trying desperately not to…
I had the great good fortune to see Death Becomes Her from the best seat in the house: front row, dead center. It’s my favorite perch because that’s where you get to see the work. The microbeats. The breath work. The sweat, spit, and precision that make up the muscle of live performance. Yes, I…
In 1994, the editor of the quarterly magazine of the Missouri Historical Society (MHS), then called Gateway Heritage, had to push hard to bring to publication an article I had written about Rev. Carol Cureton, the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis, and the impact the twenty-seven-year-old out lesbian and the nascent “homosexual church”…
It’s always a quiet delight when a restaurant you’d mostly written off earns a second look. I’ve been to Chez Josephine a handful of times over the years, usually coaxed by a friend who loves their lobster salad. And I’ve never been much for the bistro genre—too many steak frites, niçoise salads, and forced joie…
