For decades, Corporate America spent a fortune openly wooing the LGBTQ+ community. These days, the handful of companies who will still take our calls are asking to keep it on the down low. That’s certainly the position Pride St. Louis finds itself in. As one the Midwest’s largest Pride festivals, drawing 300,000, it was a…
Letter From the President of Pride St. Louis: Brandon Reid
To the LGBTQIA+ community and allies, After a two-year hiatus, we are excited to be “Together Again.” We are showing the world the love we have for one another and that we are proud of the things we’ve accomplished. As we move into the Pride season, it is important to note the amount of stress…
Pride St. Louis and The Urban League Announce Partnership
Pride St. Louis and The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis have entered into a strategic partnership that provides much needed food supplies to the St. Louis LGBTQIA community. This agreement brings together two nonprofit organizations that serve their respective communities with programs and events that empowers and educates its members. Due to the Covid-19…
PrideSTL’s Entertainment Line Up for Virtual PrideFest 2020
Pride St. Louis is excited to announce the entertainment lineup for Virtual PrideFest 2020. This first-of-its-kind STL Pride event will feature a wonderful mixture of national recording artists as well as regional and local entertainers. Many national recording artists will headline the festival, including Ava Max, Betty Who, Kim Petras, R&B sister duo Chloe X…
Christa Cunningham: Removing Barriers
From starting a real estate company in New Jersey, to coming out as transgender to her ex-partner of fourteen years, to signing away her business to start a new life in St. Louis, Christa Cunningham’s only constant has been change. After rebooting her life in 2006, Cunningham, now 49, enrolled at Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville…
Unity, Pride, and Shade: Summer Issue has it All
We’re honored to partner with Pride St. Louis and #Boom to bring you this combined Official Pride Guide and summer issue of Out in STL. Pride is when we take stock of where we are as a community, and while there will always be conflicts and rivalries (and shade!), I’m seeing more unity and collaboration…
#StandWithJake Against a Hate Group Monday
Want to see what community looks like? Head over to John Burroughs School early Monday morning. Pride St. Louis is rallying the troops, because some hate-mongers thought they’d try to come for Jake Bain—and that’s a hard nope around here. Bain, of course, is the Burroughs high school football phenom who’s heading to Indiana State…