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LGBTQ resource

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Used instead of LOC subject heading "Sexual minorities."

Found in 70 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
Found in: Missouri Historical Society, Photographs and Prints Department / PrideFest Collection

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
Found in: Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center / PROMO (Personal Rights of Missourians) Collection

Richard Reilly Social Protest Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1026
Scope and Contents The Richard Reilly Social Protest Photograph Collection contains photographs documenting a wide range of protests related to social justice, racial equality, LGBTQ rights, and improving conditions for the poor. The bulk of the collection deals with issues of racial justice and police violence, including sustained protests following the shooting death of Michael Brown; the acquittal of St. Louis Police Officer Jason Stockley in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith; and the death of...
Dates: 2013-2020
Found in: Missouri Historical Society, Photographs and Prints Department / Richard Reilly Social Protest Photograph Collection

Rudis Men’s Leather Society Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3243
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of an information card relating the club’s mission statement, purpose, and social media addresses (2 copies). There is also a blank membership form whose verso includes the club’s 10 rules. The items date from approximately 2020.

Dates: ca. 2020
Found in: Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center / Rudis Men’s Leather Society Collection

Safe Connections Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3248
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one advertising card, “QUEER: Empowering All Youth,” which focuses on services for LGBTQ+ youth.

Dates: ca. 2021
Found in: Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center / Safe Connections Collection

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
Found in: Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center / Saint Louis Gay and Lesbian Community Collection

Michael Shepley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A3205
Scope and Contents The papers consist of personal correspondence, two manuscripts, and newspaper clippings concerning Michael Shepley, his family, and his friends. There are also several publications relating to gay rights activities in New York City in the early 1970s. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topic/personal name and date from 1947 to 2020. The bulk of the papers date from 1967 to 1976 with significant gaps from 1987 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2017. ...
Dates: 1947-2020; Majority of material found within 1967-1976
Found in: Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center / Michael Shepley Papers

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
Found in: Missouri Historical Society, Photographs and Prints Department / Michael Shepley Photograph Collection

Michael K. Shreves (Michelle McCausland) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A3231
Scope and Contents The collection pertains to Michelle McCausland’s (Michael Shreves’s) participation in Missouri and St. Louis pageants that were preliminaries for the Miss Gay America pageant and a program for a celebration of life held in August 2022. Pageant-related items include certificates from the Miss Gay Missouri 2012 pageant and a judges workbook from the Miss Gay St. Louis America pageant held at Hamburger Mary’s (3037 Olive St.) on February 17, 2013. There is a large date gap from...
Dates: 2012-2022.; Majority of material found within 2012-2013
Found in: Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center / Michael K. Shreves (Michelle McCausland) Collection

Michael Shreves (Michelle McCausland) Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1109
Scope and Contents

The Michael Shreves (Michelle McCausland) Photograph Collection contains seven photographs showing Michelle McCausland, the drag persona of Michael Shreves. Five photographs show McCausland in costume, including shots taken during performances and posed headshots. Two photographs show behind-the-scenes views of Shreves applying makeup and getting ready for a performance.

Dates: ca. 1980-1999
Found in: Missouri Historical Society, Photographs and Prints Department / Michael Shreves (Michelle McCausland) Photograph Collection

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