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...
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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...