Queer

"Pronouns are basically how we identify ourselves apart from our name. It's how someone refers to you in conversation," says Mary Emily O'Hara, a communications officer at GLAAD. "And when you're speaking to people, it's a really simple way to affirm their identity."

Government, Politics & Issues

How a St. Louis queer support helpline is building community

Miya Norfleet

Founded in 2019, the St. Louis Queer Support Helpline serves as a resource for LGBTQIA+ people.

Photographer Jess T. Dugan stands in a museum gallery with photographs behind them.

Culture & History

In ‘Look at me like you love me,’ St. Louis’ Jess T. Dugan captures queer love, and more

Danny Wicentowski

St. Louis photographer Jess T. Dugan is acclaimed for their photographs of trans and gender-nonconforming older adults. The new book “Look at me like you love me” showcases their work.

Rachel Youn’s “Gather” exhibit uses massagers, artificial plants, speakers and sounds to draw a relationship between manufactured goods and spirituality.

Arts

In CAM Show, Rachel Youn Explores Where Megachurch Meets Dance Club

Lara Hamdan

Host Sarah Fenske explores the latest Great Rivers Biennial exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis with Misa Jeffereis, the assistant curator at CAM who organized the show, and Rachel Youn, whose "Gather” gallery on display blends the lines between dance and worship.

Luka Cai is a co-founder of the newly launched SQSH project.

Health, Science & Environment

New 'SQSH' Helpline Is A Resource 'For The St. Louis LGBTQIA+ Community, By The Community'

Evie Hemphill

Growing up in Singapore, Washington University undergraduate Luka Cai was closeted, finding little support there for members of the LGBTQ community. But…

Maxi Glamour hosts a polka-themed drag and burlesque show at Das Bevo Underground on a recent Friday night. Nov. 11, 2018

Arts

The changing face of drag: 'Not exactly a woman but I don't want to be a man'

Nancy Fowler

Once a month, 90-year-old John Chaney dons a blond wig, dressy suit and heels — and transforms into a Tammy Wynette look-alike who lip-syncs to country…

Janie Oliphant, left, adjusts a LGBT flag held by Cody Copp and Samuel Taylor so they can have their picture taken at a rally and march in St. Louis in February 2017.

Arts

Organizers expect thousands at Pride events in St. Louis this weekend

Shahla Farzan

St. Louis will host two Pride festivals this weekend as part of a yearly celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and history.Pride traces its roots back to the 1969…

Landon Brownfield and Wolf Smith take a short break from working to get St. Louis' new LGBT Community Center ready on December 29, 2016.

Government, Politics & Issues

Organizers expect new community center to draw wide range of LGBT people

Nancy Fowler

A new LGBT Community Center near South Grand Boulevard will open to its first visitors on Sunday. The center is housed inside the Pride St. Louis offices…