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Gay community -- Missouri -- Saint Louis

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

PrideFest Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1022
Scope and Contents The PrideFest Collection contains four oversize posters promoting PrideFest 2003 and PrideFest 2004, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Pride in St. Louis. Both events were held in June in Tower Grove Park. Three of the posters document PrideFest25 in 2004, including a broadside advertisement with date and location information, a schedule of events, and a map of the event. One large poster advertises PrideFest 2003, including date and location information. Several of the posters list...
Dates: 2003-2004

PROMO (Personal Rights of Missourians) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3251
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a one-page itinerary for the Love Needs No Cure protest at the “Love Won Out” conference hosted at the First Evangelical Free Church in Manchester, Missouri, and two PROMO donation cards. The items date 2006, 2019, and 2020, respectively, and are arranged chronologically.

Dates: 2006-2020

Saint Louis Gay and Lesbian Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A1422
Scope and Contents

The collection contains fliers, newsletters, event programs and invitations, meeting minutes, advertisements, press releases, newspaper clippings, and other material documenting the social activities and activism of the St. Louis LGBTQ community and their allies with a small amount of material on Kansas City events.

Dates: 1980-2019; Majority of material found within 1989-1998

Michael Shepley Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1080
Scope and Contents The Michael Shepley Photograph Collection contains photographs of Michael Shepley from his childhood through adulthood. The collection includes pictures of Shepley as a child; with school friends; with his father, Ethan A.H. Shepley, Jr.; at a campaign event for his grandfather, Ethan A.H. Shepley, Sr.’s, gubernatorial campaign; during his work as a publicity assistant at The Muny; and as an adult with his partner, Leonard Peters, including one photo of the couple at a New York City Gay...
Dates: ca. 1961-1985

St. Louis Business Journal Business of Pride Awards Program

 Collection
Identifier: A3227
Scope and Contents

The program includes the names of the honorees and the schedule for the ceremony held on June 21, 2022.

Dates: 2022 June 21

St. Louis Crusaders Rugby Football Club Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3244
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one interest card with the following information: a QR Codes; practice times; Rugby 101 clinic on 08/13/2022 with a social at Just John afterward; and a map of Forest Park.

Dates: 2020

St. Louis LGBT History Project Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1052
Scope and Contents The St. Louis LGBT History Project Photograph Collection contains posters and photographs documenting the St. Louis LGBTQIA+ community from about the 1970s through 2013. Materials were collected by community historian Steven Brawley, founder of the St. Louis LGBT History Project. The collection covers a wide variety of topics, including headshots of drag queens and other performers; Pride festivals and parades; and posters advertising events sponsored by the Privacy Rights Education Project...
Dates: 1970-2013

Unofficial Pride Parade Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1020
Scope and Contents The Unofficial Pride Parade Collection contains five color snapshots showing an unofficial Pride Parade, possibly in Forest Park. The parade features people riding in convertibles, some of whom are wearing extravagant headdresses and long dresses. Each car has a sign, several of which are illegible or partially legible. Two of the signs read: "Gus's" and "Red Bull, East St. Louis."Photographs may show one of the first St. Louis pride parades, held in May or June 1973. This parade...
Dates: ca. 1973

Rodney Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A3237
Scope and Contents The papers are comprised of materials relating to Rodney Wilson’s efforts to establish the first LGBT History Month, to his participation in HIV vaccine trials at Saint Louis University and to his position on its community advisory board, to classroom notes from one of Wilson’s high school students, and to research conducted by Wilson. The papers are arranged into three series: AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Unit (AVEU) series, 1988-1998; LGBT...
Dates: 1988-1998; Majority of material found within 1991-1995

Wired Women Dance, Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: A3159
Scope and Contents The collection contains records for Wired Women Dance, Inc. dating from 1984 to 1999. The records are divided into two series: Administrative and Events. The Administrative Series is arranged alphabetically by topic/type of document and dates from 1983 to 1999. The Events Series is arranged alphabetically by topic and dates from 1984 to 1999. The ...
Dates: 1983-1999