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• "In the Park With Pride" Flier, 1996
  Flier for a Pride Picnic in Tower Grove Park
• Tower Grove neighborhood house
  This home demonstrates that this neighborhood is friendly to LGBTQ+ folks and the trans community, given the flags on display at the front of the house. Next to it is a skeleton taken on Instagram for Tower Grove. It was posted on October 25th, 2024.
• Saint Louis Zoo Pride Button, 2023
  Button from Saint Louis Pride 2023 https://mohistory.org/collections/item/2024-021-0001
• werQfest
  WerQfest is an arts and culture festival highlighting the black queer, trans and non-binary community. Their mission is to use the power of arts & entertainment to create safe spaces & amplify artists, organizations, and voices within the Black queer community.
• St. Louis Queer Support & Healing
  SQSH website
• Pink Triangle
  Pink Triangle Button: This former symbol of gay pride worn by St. Louis activist Gregory Gerhart, features the insignia used during the Holocaust to identify homosexual prisoners within the concentration camp system.
• Queer Town Underground
  Queer Town Underground Facebook page header
• Grey Fox Pub
  Grey Fox Pub
• "The Unknown Gay"
  This powerful image symbolizes the struggles of countless LGBTQ+ individuals unable to live openly due to societal pressures, discrimination, and fear. This image highlights the courage of those who, despite the risks, fought for visibility, acceptance, and meaningful change in St. Louis and beyond, shaping the path toward equality for future generations.
• STL Pride Flag
  Pride Themed Tower Grove Pride
• Exploring St. Louis ArcGIS Map
  Exploring St. Louis ArcGIS Map
• Tower Grove East Pride Facebook Picture
  Tower Grove East Pride Facebook Picture adopted by the neighborhood association.
• Plate 94 of Pictorial St. Louis showing Tower Grove Park
  Map that shows the map of Tower Grove Park
• Angles Jacket
  Nylon jacket promoting LGBTQ+ nightclub Angles
• Poster Advertisement for The Grove
  Poster advertising The Grove in St. Louis
• Tower Grove Pride History Harvest Interview with Katsu by Andrew Burns
  Oral history review
• Tower Grove Pride History Harvest Interview with Kerri Frisch by Alex Stevenson
  Oral History Interview
• Tower Grove Pride History Harvest Interview with Kirit Silverwood by Alex Stevenson
  Oral history interview
• Tower Grove Pride History Harvest Interview with Kristian Adup by Joe Bratkowski
  oral history interview
• Noe, et al. v. Parson, et al. (Circuit Court of Cole County State of Missouri) 2024
  Court upholds SB 49 Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Missouri, and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP filed a lawsuit in Cole County Circuit court to block the implementation of SB 49, which would prevent transgender adolescents in Missouri from accessing evidence-based gender-affirming medical care. The legal advocates filed the challenge to SB 49 on behalf of three families of transgender young people, medical providers, and the organizations PFLAG and GLMA. The law is scheduled to take effect on August 28.
• Missouri SB 49
  SS#2/SCS/SBs 49, 236 & 164 - This act establishes the "Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act". Under this act, no health care provider shall perform gender transition surgeries on any minor. Until August 28, 2027, no health care provider shall prescribe or administer cross-sex hormones or puberty-blocking drugs to a minor for a gender transition, unless such minor was receiving such treatment prior to August 28, 2023. This bill was upheld in the Cole County Circut Court of Missouri, Noe, et al. v. Parson, et al.
• 2012 Signed St. Louis Pride Flag
• 1989 PrideFest Flyer and Chants
• SQSH (St. Louis Queer Support and Healing)
  SQSH’s mission is to build community capacity for queer St. Louisans to thrive by radically reimagining our systems of support & healing. We do this work through, non-hierarchical peer support and community-building, connections with identity-affirming resources and healing spaces, embodied analysis of oppressive systems that impact our community, moving systems closer towards liberatory values, and education and advocacy to uplift queer St. Louisan stories.
• Dreaming Towards Liberation: Queer Futurist Manifestations
  SQSH is a grassroots community-based collective of queer and trans St. Louisans. SQSH dreams of a liberated St. Louis Metro Area where people of all genders and sexualities live with power, safety, and abundance. Their vision for the future is described in their manifestations document Dreaming Towards Liberation: Queer Futurist Manifestations.