An open letter from the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis (MCCGSL): Yesterday during worship, the Board of Directors provided the ...

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, last Thursday, narrowly affirmed the nomination of  St. Louis lawyer Stephen Clark  to a federal jud...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Darkness, St. Louis' longest-running haunted house, is celebrating Its 25th Year of Fear during the 2018 haunt season. &n...

On Wednesday, Lambda Legal joined with 18 national, state and local LGBT civil rights organizations to oppose the nomination of Stephen Clark to th...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Boo at the Zoo Nights presented by SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital runs nightly, Oct. 16-30 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m....

With back-to-school season upon us and 19% of high school students reporting being bullied on school property, the personal-finance website WalletH...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Experience the history of Stifel Theatre (formerly Peabody Opera House) this Halloween with a Haunted History Tour!   ...

  HANNIBAL, Mo. — The 4th annual Diversity Days will take place on September 14-15, 2018 in downtown Hannibal, Missouri.   ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Fabulous Fox Theatre is excited to announce the return of the extremely popular Ghost Tours this October 1st, 8th and 15th. Th...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville celebrates part of its mission with its rich diversity. SIUE Chancellor Randy Pembro...

Love, Peace & Beauty Grease!   Hairball St. Louis, the iconic event of the season celebrating artistic expression through hair design, m...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Thirst for Life (TFL), the annual FUNdraising event involving St. Louis area establishments pledging 30% or more of their bev...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo.—Last month, St. Louis County residents Beverly Nance and her wife, Mary Walsh, filed a federal lawsuit against Friendship Vil...

Social media feeds blew up last night following the news that Christine Hallquist made history by becoming the first transgender candidate to be no...

ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC, and co-counsel filed a lawsuit today on behalf of mar...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — For the second year, 4 Hands Brewing Co. announces their release of the City Wide Pride can promoting LGBTQ Pride Month in June. T...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Missouri Courage Scholarship (MCS) is proud to announce the winners of our 2018 awards. Each year, MCS awards scholarships to coll...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The 2018 Missouri Legislative Session had the fewest number of anti-LGBT bills filed in recent years. Plus, this was also the...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The General Laws Committee in the Missouri House, on Wed., voted in favor of the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act (MONA), HB 21...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Missouri Courage Scholarship (MCS) has announced the launch of its 2018 scholarship application for students who demonstrate coura...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - PROMO, Missouri’s statewide LGBT advocacy organization, is hosting its annual Equality Day tomorrow, February 20, at the Miss...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - For the first time in Missouri, HB 2141 focused on banning so-called “conversion therapy”, has been filed by Rep. Tracy McCre...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri General Assembly's new legislative session will kick off at noon on Jan. 3, 2018 with LGBTQ advocates preparing ...

Collaboration Includes Exchange Trip, Video Diaries, and Events in the U.S. and Russia ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Pride St. Louis announced today the acquis...

The Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR, was founded as a memorial by trans activist Gwendolyn Ann Smith after the murder of Rita Hester, a Mas...

WASHINGTON, DC - The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender a...

An open letter from PROMO Executive Director, Steph Perkins: In an historic decision on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, a Missouri Court of Appeals Wes...

Celebrates 50 Years of Advocacy “These faith leaders acted and spoke out fearlessly and sacrificed greatly in the midst of strong condemnation and...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Missouri Courage Scholarship (MCS) announced today the establishment of its first Board of Directors.   ...

ST. LOUIS, MO – A report on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equality in America’s cities by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The region's most legendary Halloween street party returns Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Festivities kick off with fun daytime activiti...

Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued guidance to administrative agencies and executive departments focusing on religious freedom and both ...

National Center for Lesbian Rights says, “What matters is the love and care a parent gives to her child, not biology” ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The Nationa...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and PROMO, Missouri’s Statewide LGBT advocacy organization, on Wednesday, expressed deep concern ...

Over the past two days, I have read countless stories from friends sharing their fondest memories of Edie Windsor. ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Fabulous Fox Theatre is excited to announce the return of its wildly popular Ghost Tours this October. Ghost Tours at the Fab ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – In the aftermath and devastation left by Hurricane Harvey, many members of the nationwide LGBTQIA+ community are displaced and str...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A total eclipse is coming August 21, 2017 and St. Louisans will enjoy one of the most significant celestial events in decades, as ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Members and supporters of the St. Louis Balloon Brigade were on hand at Just John in the Grove on Sunday for an Ice Cream Social b...

NARAL Missouri joined this effort dressed as Handmaids, taking a page from Margaret Atwood’s classic “The Handmaid’s Tale.” This action follows a n...

Editor's note: #Boom Media has been a fiduciary sponsor of the St. Louis Balloon Brigade in the St. Louis Pride Parade for the past two years. We d...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. 4 Hands Brewing Co. wants to share its Pride initiative with you. The brewery’s City Wide beer brand gives back to nonprofits and in...

Missouri Courage Scholarship (MCS) is proud to announce the winners of its 2017 awards. Each year, MCS awards scholarships to high school seniors w...

The St. Louis Mullen Foundation’s seventh annual Mike Mullen Day fundraiser will be held from noon-5 p.m. on Saturday, June 3, 2017 at Just John Ni...

The reigning Miss Missouri, Erin O'Flaherty, announced yesterday on social media that she is engaged to her longtime girlfriend. (Per O'Flaherty's ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - PROMO, Missouri's statewide LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, will be hitting the road this spring to talk about how to build on (and ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Come get your Q on! The 10th Annual QFest St. Louis, presented by Cinema St. Louis, runs March 29-April 2, 2017, at the .ZACK Thea...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - For the 19th year in a row the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act (MONA) has been filed in the Missouri House and Senate. This le...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Missouri Courage Scholarship (MCS) announced on Wednesday the launch of its 2017 scholarship application. In 2016, MCS awarded...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri’s 2017 legislative session begins today with four anti-LGBT bills that were pre-filed in December.   ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Pride St. Louis, in collaboration with the LGBTQIA+ non-profit organizations Metro Trans Umbrella Group (MTUG), St. Louis Black Pr...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Saint Louis Zoo has been voted one of America's greatest free attractions, and starting Nov. 25, for a nominal fee, a wild, ar...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Pride St. Louis, Inc., on Monday, announced plans for the development of a new lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/question...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Pride St. Louis, in collaboration with the LGBTQIA+ non-profit organizations Metro Trans Umbrella Group (MTUG), St. Louis Black Pr...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis (MCCGSL) has become the first church in its worldwide denomination to hire ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Fabulous Fox Theatre is excited to announce the return of the extremely popular Ghost Tours this October. The Fabulous Fox Gho...

The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association announced the winners of its 2016 Excellence in Journalism Awards on Wednesday to salute exe...

Bud Light launched its latest ad in the Bud Light Party campaign yesterday, which continues to champion the brand’s message of inclusivity among mo...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine (SIRM®), an internationally renowned Midwest fertility clinic located in St. Louis, will ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Over 3,000 political activists, including myriad LGBTQIA+ and progressive leaders will descend on St. Louis this week for the 11th...

ST. LOUIS - Rainbow lighting will return to The Civil Courts building downtown at dusk tonight for the fourth year in a row for St. Louis PrideFest...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Mayor Francis G. Slay and members of the St. Louis transgender community raised the transgender pride flag in front of St. Louis C...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Approximately 3,000 LGBT and ally community members descended on the Grove neighborhood in St. Louis Sunday night for a candleligh...

Equality Illinois and PROMO, Illinois and Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organizations, issued the following statements yesterday in response t...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Crime Victim Advocacy Center (CVAC) extends its deepest condolences and sympathies to everyone who lost friends or family members ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Early yesterday morning, we received word of the terrible tragedy that occurred at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The la...

In the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, 49 people were killed and another 53 were injured during an early morning attack by a gunman at Pulse...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - PROMO, Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organization, has launched Show-Me YOU, an LGBT health and wellness questionnaire for LG...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transg...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Moments ago, Senate Joint Resolution 39 failed to pass the House Emerging Issues Committee by a 6-6 vote effec...

There's been one frustrating delay after another in the House Emerging Issues Committee on deciding the fate of Senate Joint Resolution 39. The bil...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (MOAAP), representing over 1,100 pediatricians dedicated to the he...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Michael Sam, the former Mizzou Tiger, St. Louis Ram draft pick and the first openly gay football player in NFL history will b...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - On the same day as the Emerging Issues Committee has scheduled a hearing on SJR 39, businesses from across Missouri have join...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Washington University in St. Louis hosted the second Midwest Queer Indigenous and People Of Color (QIPOC) Conference, April 8-10, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois House committee on Tuesday advanced pro-equality legislation that modernizes the state’s birth certificate law. ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Just days after Missouri legislators reconvened from spring break, SJR 39 is on the move in the House. SJR 39 was referred to the ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Today, MasterCard joined other Fortune 500 company Monsanto in publicly opposing SJR 39. The letter, from President Rob Reeg of Ma...

Following a historic filibuster by Democrats, Senate votes 21 to 11 to pass an extreme ‘First Amendment Defense Act’-style proposal that goes far b...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri businesses, faith leaders, and organizations have joined together to tell Missouri General Assembly to reject anti-L...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Yesterday, Sen. Bob Onder’s (R-Lake St. Louis) SJR 39 was voted out of the Seniors, Families and Children Committee. SJR 39 w...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Steph Perkins has been offered and has accepted the position of Executive Director of PROMO, Missouri's statewide lesbian, gay, bi...

New "Religious Freedom" legislation introduced in the Missouri Senate on Wednesday could bring an anti-LGBT constitutional amendment before Missour...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Hundreds of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and allied Missourians are expected tomorrow (Feb. 16) at PROMO's annu...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Brown School of Social Work at Washington University will hold its 2016 Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner on March 1, 2016. T...

Outspoken Ugandan LGBTQ Rights Advocate Will Offer Remarks Along With Other Noted International Activists, Leaders and Scholars ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - This afternoon, the Missouri State University Board of Governors voted in favor, 6-1, of amending the university’s nondiscrimina...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Missouri Senate Committee will hear the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act or MONA on Wednesday, January 27 at the State Capito...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - As equality advocates prepare to descend on the Missouri Capitol to lobby legislators on Feb. 16, the number of anti-LGBT bil...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Governor Jay Nixon renewed his call for LGBT protections in his final State of the State address to Missourians last...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Today, PROMO launched MoTransRights.org, a website created not only to help transgender Missourians with policy and updated laws h...

Gay and Lesbian St. Louis is the latest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s series Images of America. The book, by local author Steven Louis Brawley, ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Registration is now underway for the second annual Midwest Queer Indigenous and People of Color Conference (QIPOCC) at Washington ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Two anti-LGBT "Religious Freedom" bills were introduced in the Missouri House today. ...

LOS ANGELES, Ca. — The Advocate, the world’s leading LGBT news source, unveiled its 7th annual “Queerest Cities in America” list, today, giving St....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Missouri on Tuesday, in conjunction with PROMO and other community partners, ann...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The 2016 Missouri legislative session kicked off on Jan. 6 with LGBT equality advocates preparing to fight a host of anti-equ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - #Boom Magazine is proud to announce its membership in the Gateway Business Guild of St. Louis (GBG) and subsequent certification a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, ...

A new report argues that Michael Johnson, the gay 23-year-old former college wrestler found guilty of knowingly exposing several men to HIV, faced ...

St. Louis observed World AIDS Day on Tuesday during a day-long event at the Missouri History Museum organized by Saint Louis Effort for AIDS. ...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The autumn winds blew chilly and cold, but they were no match for the hundreds of hand-held candles - nor the warm glow ...

POZ magazine, the award-winning print and online brand for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, has introduced the sixth annual POZ 100, wh...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Wednesday, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) ci...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. You’ll get goose bumps as you wander through the arctic wonderland of twinkling holiday lights and seasonal sounds of U.S....

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Last week, the Social Security Administration (SSA) confirmed that the agency is directing all Missouri offices to recognize valid...

JACKSON COUNTY, Mo. - A Missouri Western District Court of Appeals has dismissed the case of a gay man who sued his former employer for unlawful te...

The St. Louis LGBT History Project announced on Monday a new archival partnership with the Department of Special Collections, University Archives, ...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Metro Trans Umbrella Group (MTUG) has partnered with #Plant4PeaceSTL to create what they believe to be the first tra...

The popular LGBT community owned watering hole Absolutli Goosed will be closing its doors on Oct. 3, co-owner Robin Schubert announced today - but ...

  This year marks the 10th Annual Grove Fest – St. Louis’ highly anticipated and outrageously eclectic street festival. Presented by the Gr...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - PROMO, Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy and policy organization, announced today the White House and U.S. Department of Health a...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Columbia Board of Education voted unanimously tonight  in favor of amending the district’s nondiscrimination and student’s...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Latino youngsters took a whack at "The Donald" on Sunday at the Fiesta on Cherokee St. - a celebration of Mexican Independence Day...

A Scene from the 1969 Raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York City    In August, the St. Louis LGBT History Project obtained historical...

  HILLSBORO, Mo. - Over 100 LGBTQ and allied supporters descended on Hillsboro City Park in Hillsboro, Mo. Friday evening in support of the...

Sherrill Wayland, Deputy Director of PROMO Fund and former Executive Director of SAGE Metro St. Louis announced today that she will be leaving her ...

  KIRKWOOD, Mo. - The Kirkwood City Council tonight unanimously voted to strengthen the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance by adding local ...

The Missouri Courage Scholarship is proud to announce the Trans Courage Award, one of the first scholarships in the country dedicated to recognizin...

  ST. LOUIS – A.J. Bockelman will step down as Executive Director of PROMO, Missouri’s statewide LGBT policy and advocacy organization, on ...

L to R: New Pride St. Louis Directors Marti McClanless, Jesse Doggendorf, Jennifer Jones and Jennifer Reiss   ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Pride St. L...

Crystal Bergen and Jessica Brockman started making plans for their wedding immediately following the United States Supreme Court's June 26 ruling a...

SALEM, Mo. - Last week we reported the story of Salem, Mo. native Jacob Wilson's effort to counter the (now rescinded) Dent County Commission's vot...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Over $2,000 was raised on Friday at The Missouri Courage Scholarship and Happy Hour Fundraiser held at Just John nightcl...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - There are two open seats on the Pride St. Louis, Inc. board of directors following elections held last night for seven sitting dir...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Last week we reported the story of Salem, Mo. native Jacob Wilson's campaign to counter the (now rescinded) Dent County Commission...

  Members and supporters of the St. Louis Balloon Brigade were on hand at Meyer's Grove in the Grove on Tuesday for the presentation of a $...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Around 100 transgender community members and their allied supporters met at Trinity Episcopal Church in the Central West...

It's been an interesting 24-hours since news broke that the Dent County Commission in Southeast Missouri voted to fly flags at its Courthouse and J...

The Dent County Commission is expected to rescind it's recent vote to fly government flags at half-mast in "mourning" over the recent U.S. Supreme ...

The Dent County Courthouse and Judicial Building in southeast Missouri will be flying flags "below half-staff" on the 26th day of each month in obs...

PROMO - Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organization - announced on Friday that all Missouri counties are now issuing marriage license...

Two southern Missouri judges have decided to not marry any couples - straight or gay - following last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizin...

As of Wednesday afternoon, Barry County in Southwest Missouri on the Arkansas boarder is the lone holdout in actively issuing marriage licenses to ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo.  –  Openly gay St. Louis Alderman Shane Cohn has introduced a bill that calls for raising the minimum wage in St. Louis Ci...

  Jim Obergefell  and John Arthur had been together for two wonderful decades in 2011 when Arthur was diagnosed with amyotrophic later...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Two of the region's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) entities will be merging it was announced toda...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Continuing its longstanding support of scholarship within the St. Louis lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A St. Charles County jury recommended a potential 60 years in prison on Friday for a 23-year-old man convicted of infecting anot...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Local and regional lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history played a prominent role at the Annual Meeting o...

  WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, on Thursday, sent a new case study to Missouri lawmakers urging them to reject anti-equ...

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Chamber of Commerce, today, again went on record in opposition to adding sexual orientation and gender...

The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that one of two lawyers who have been chosen to argue in favor of same-sex marriage rights before the United St...

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Nondiscrimination Act (MONA), which would add LGBT protections to Missouri's Human Rights Statute, wil...

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A bill proposed by a Missouri lawmaker that would allow Christian groups to discriminate on the basis of sexual ori...

CHICAGO - Sayer Andrew Johnson, founder and president of the St. Louis based Metro Trans Umbrella Group, was honored as a member of the Trans 100 d...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - At least four southeast Missouri Presbyterian churches have received letters threatening to burn their buildings to the groun...

  ST. LOUIS - Dozens gathered beneath the Grove sign at the corner of Manchester and Sarah today to participate in The Metro Trans Umbrella...

Recently released data analysis from Gallup shows that 3.6 percent of the St. Louis metro population identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transg...

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri is adding to the wave of anti-equality legislation being filed across the country with the introduction of...

  Lights! Camera! Action! The Eighth Annual QFest St. Louis, presented by Cinema St. Louis, will be taking over the Tivoli Theatre, April 1...

  JEFFERSON CITY, MO - A Missouri legislator has introduced two bills aimed at restricting public restroom use by transgender and gender no...

  A co-founder and former board member of The LGBT Center of St. Louis received some special recognition from President Barack Obama Monday...

  ST. LOUIS - PROMO, Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organization, is calling on community members to take action against SB555, introdu...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Commuters along I-64 will be treated to a dazzling display of rainbow lighting courtesy of the Saint Louis Science Cente...

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Missouri legislator has introduced a bill that would make it illegal for the state to enforce a marriage other th...

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey, a Republican from St. Charles, has filed a bill asking for the abili...

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —  A Missouri Senate panel met today to consider the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act or MONA (SB 237), which...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments this spring from three states, including Missouri, defending same-sex marriage bans.  &n...

  ST. LOUIS - Williams& Associates, Inc., a community based agency addressing minority health disparities in St. Louis, announced ...

  ST. LOUIS - Steven Brawley, head of the St. Louis LGBT History Project has picked up checks for approximately $2,412 at Just John nightcl...

  ST. LOUIS - Echoing concerns voiced last week by The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, The Archdio...

  CHICAGO – Equality Illinois on Tuesday announced an initiative to pass legislation banning ineffectual and dangerous conversion therapy d...

    SPRINGFIELD, MO - Over the past several months, PROMO has worked closely with 47 Missouri hospitals, that have included 105 new L...

  ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Effort for AIDS (EFA) may have fallen short of its goal to break a world record for the most people tested for HIV ...

  ST. LOUIS - PROMO, Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organization has unveiled Missouri Businesses for Equality, a new online directory&...

Though many were aware that Howard Meyer had been battling cancer for the past two years, news of the LGBT community leader, philanthropist and bus...

  ST. LOUIS - Dozens of LGBT and allied community members lit candles and stood outside the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Lo...

  The Missouri Health Equity Collaborative (MOHEC) has been collaborating with TransParent to create a series of podcasts about the parents...

  ST. LOUIS – EducationPlus' Cooperating School District Insurance Trust (CSD), a a self-insured option available to all public school...

  ST. LOUIS – County employees that participate in the County Employees’ Retirement Fund (CERF) that are legally married (including same-se...

  JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Attorney Drey Cooley of St. Louis-based law firm Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, P.C., presented arguments to ...

KANSAS CITY, MO – On Friday, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster filed notice to appeal the federal marriage decision in Lawson v. Kelly de...

  ST. LOUIS – “The Gayborhood” radio show, which airs Monday-Friday on 1380 the X from 4-6 p.m., is returning to a Saturday only rotation. ...

  CHARIS, The St. Louis Women’s Chorus is seeking applicants for a new Artistic Director (AD). The part-time paid position will begin on Ma...

  ST. LOUIS – Over a dozen volunteers descended on an icy Art Hill in Forest Park at 1 a.m. this morning to spell out the word AIDS using t...

  Approximately 150 transgender activists, allies, and equality supporters marched in the Grove on a frigid Thanksgiving Eve for the annual...

  The National LGBTQ Task Force describes the grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson, Mo., officer Darren Wilson in the death of Mich...

  Capping off Transgender Awareness Month, and immediately following this week’s Transgender Day of Remembrance will be the University of M...

  Missouri’s two largest cities have again earned perfect scores from The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, b...

  ST. LOUIS – Over 3,100 petitions were delivered by community leaders, married same-sex couples and clergy to Missouri Attorney General Ch...

  ST. LOUIS – The 31st St. Louis Veteran’s Day Parade wound through the streets of St. Louis on Saturday afternoon. Thousands descended on ...

  KANSAS CITY - Today, U.S. District Court Judge Otrie D. Smith ruled Missouri’s marriage ban unconstitutional. Missouri Attorney General C...

     ST. LOUIS, MO - St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison, today, ruled that Missouri’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitution...

  ST. LOUIS – ChoiceArt has emerged as one of the most anticipated arts events in the Gateway City having raised more than $100,000 for Pla...

  On Sunday, November 2nd, the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Saint Louis will welcome Maryville University Photo Media artist an...

  ST. LOUIS –Show Me Marriage, a grassroots public education campaign to show all Missourians that Missouri is ready for marriage equality,...

  ST. LOUIS – Marriage Equality was again before a Missouri court today as St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison heard arguments on the cons...

  ST. LOUIS - A total of 75 faith and clergy leaders in Missouri have come together to say, “I support the marriage of ALL Missourians...

  ST. LOUIS – Clementines, the city’s oldest gay bar, will close on Sept. 29, 2014.   ...

  The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church and current fellow at the Center for American Progress...

  ST. LOUIS - A new study authored by Williams Distinguished Scholar, M.V. Lee Badgett; Williams Gleason Kettel Summer Fellow, Justin M. O’...

  FERGUSON, MO –  A month to the day after unarmed black teenager Mike Brown was gunned down by a white police officer, LGBT acti...

  ST. LOUIS – Around 50 people participated in a rally held at Cor Jesu Academy in Affton, Sept. 5, following news reports detailing the te...

ST. LOUIS – ShowMeNoHate will be holding a rally at Cor Jesu Friday morning at 7:45 a.m. outside the Academy’s doors at Gravois and South Laclede S...

  GLENDALE, Mo. – Matthew Pappert, an officer with the Glendale police department since 2008, was fired on Friday for what his chief called...

  ST. LOUIS – Among the many side stories that emerged from the coverage of the unrest following the racially charged shooting of unarmed t...

  Out in the Park sponsor Ketel One has selected four area LGBT establishments for Four Fridays of Fun in St. Louis.   ...

  ST. LOUIS, MO ­ PROMO, Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organization, in concert with its peer statewide groups, released a statem...

  ST. LOUIS, MO - #ShowMeMarriage announced today that a Sept. 29, 2014 hearing has been set for Missouri v Sharon Quigley Carpenter, the c...

  ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis County Human Relations Commission has been presented with an award from the St. Louis Jewish Communities PRIDE ...

  ST. LOUIS – Wet your whistle for a good cause at the 9th annual “Thirst For Life” taking place throughout the city as close for 40 area b...

  ST. LOUIS, MO – The St. Louis Black Gay & Lesbian Pride Committee has announced that the organization will not be producing its weeke...

  ST. LOUIS — The Metro Trans Umbrella Group (MTUG) has weighed in following yesterday’s sentencing of a one-time St. Louis police officer ...

  ST. LOUIS – Fresh off winning best overall parade entry at this year’s PrideFest, around 30 members and supporters of the St. Louis Ballo...

  Almost one month following the City of St. Louis issuing marriage licenses to four same-sex couples, the community gathered at Just John ...

  FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL – The extended Independence Day weekend was an explosion of fairs, fireworks, pool parties and back yard barbecues f...

  ST. LOUIS – The second Tower Grove Pride was held on Saturday, June 28. The event kicked off with a morning picnic at the Tower Grov...

  ST. LOUIS, MO – Thousands of pride goers descended on downtown for the 35th anniversary St. Louis PrideFest. The June 28-29 event celebra...

  ST. LOUIS, MO – St. Louis PrideFest 2014 kicked off on Saturday, June 28 with the 11 a.m. wreath laying ceremony on the steps of Soldier’...

  ST. LOUIS — The Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis has condemned a move by the city to challenge Missouri’s constitutional ban on same-sex...

  ST. LOUIS, MO – A challenge to Missouri's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was brought by St. Louis city officials after issuing m...

  ST. LOUIS, MO – St. Louis Mayor Francis G. Slay announced that marriage licenses were issued to four same-sex couples by St. Louis Record...

  ST. LOUIS, MO – The first of the Gateway City's PrideFest lighting came online tonight as the Civil Courts building and the top portion o...

  BELLEVILLE, IL - Hundreds of pride goers attended the 7th annual Metro East PrideFest celebration in downtown Belleville, Ill. on Saturda...

  ST. LOUIS – Get set for the 35th annual St. Louis PrideFest celebration, to be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29, 2014. For the sec...

  ST. LOUIS – Out In The Park is a private LGBT Saturday night charity event featuring unlimited riding of Six Flags St. Louis amazing thri...

  ST. LOUIS – Community leaders, politicians and other dignitaries were on hand as hundreds attended last night's official P...

  ST. LOUIS – The Civil Courts building will be ablaze in rainbow lighting once again this year for St. Louis PrideFest thanks to the suppo...

  ST. LOUIS – Military diversity will be front and center again at this year’s St. Louis PrideFest and at events around the bi-state. ...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Missouri’s Hispanic business community is coming out in support of a proposed statewide LGBT-inclusive non-discriminatio...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. – More than 450 Missouri-based companies from across the state, including two of the Fortune 500, are now voicing their su...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The St. Louis public school system has implemented changes to their employment benefits to include coverage for married,...