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”…
314 Day: Notable LGBTQ St. Louisans Share What They Love About the City
We are St. Louis. A city at the confluence of the continent’s two mightiest rivers. A city that rose from land covered in mysterious manmade mounds. Land that was the site of the largest Native American city north of present-day Mexico—larger than London in 1100 AD. We were French and Spanish before we were American,…