LGBTQ St. Louis on the Map Happy 6 Month Anniversary to Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis! Online and freely available to everyone since October 2017, Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis allows...
WWI Collections: Dan Bartlett Lieutenant Dan Bartlett When America entered WWI a century ago, many alumni and even current students at Washington University in...
Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis is Now Online Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis is a digital interactive map exploring how the region’s LGBTQIA+ communities have changed over time.
Hotch at 100: Growing Up In St. Louis This year marks the 100th birthday of author and Washington University alumnus A. E. Hotchner. To help celebrate this milestone,...
Letter to ONE, from St. Louis In 1958, a St. Louis resident who identified himself as “Mr. H” wrote to the editors of ONE, the first LGBTQ...
Where Was That? : Using Travel Guides to Reconstruct LGBTQ History A key challenge as we researched Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis was locating street addresses. Since many bars and restaurants were well...
Unusual Sources Recently the national podcast Criminal visited the WU library. This audio documentary program was researching The Evening Whirl — one of the...
A Snapshot of St. Louis in the Era of Gay Lib A Snapshot of St. Louis in the Era of Gay Lib: Ciao! Magazine Profiles the Gateway City In June 1974, Ciao!,...
“In This Part of the City, All the Fellows Are Gay:” Exploring the History of LGBTQ Nightlife at St. Louis’s Grand and Olive [3/3] The 3500 block of Olive flourished as an LGBTQ nightlife destination in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. At around the...
“In This Part of the City, All the Fellows Are Gay:” Exploring the History of LGBTQ Nightlife at St. Louis’s Grand and Olive [2/3] Several factors probably played a part in the appearance of an LGBTQ nightlife venue near Grand and Olive in the...
“In This Part of the City, All the Fellows Are Gay”: Exploring the History of LGBTQ Nightlife at St. Louis’s Grand and Olive [1/3] From the mid-1930s to end of the 1970s, there was an almost continuous presence of lesbian and gay establishments here....
Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis is an interdisciplinary humanities project that centers on the LGBTQ experience with the divided city. Between...