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News and events for the Illinois suburbs and exurbs of St.Louis.
ST. LOUIS — Metro Trans Umbrella Group (MTUG), an advocacy organization for transgender people in the St. Louis metro area, announced Wednesday that they will not participate in the St. Louis Pride Parade. They made the announcement on their Facebook page.
ST. LOUIS — The Civil Courts Building in St. Louis will lit in Pride colors tonight for the start of the city’s Pride celebrations. Pride St. Louis, organizers of St.
ST. LOUIS — Planned Parenthood of St. Louis, the last clinic in Missouri that performs abortions, has said it will no longer do the second pelvic exam required by state law. The clinic is currently fighting to keep open as the state holds its license in limbo. A court has ruled that the clinic can remain open until the state makes a decision on the clinic’s license.
ST. LOUIS — A man sent emails to Pride St. Louis threatening to shoot and kill LGBTQ people, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday. The newspaper reported that Edward A. Terry of Overland, Mo., 49, was charged Tuesday with making a terrorist threat.
ST. LOUIS — Pride St. Louis (PSL), organizers of the St. Louis Pride Parade, announced Tuesday morning that they would allow LGBTQ police officers to march in the parade in uniform, reversing a decision from last week. PSL made the announcement during a Facebook Live broadcast.
Photo credit Colin Lovett | #Boom MagazineBELLEVILLE — The MetroEast area held its Pride celebration last weekend and it was a success. The celebration, a festival, is one of the older ones in the state. MetroEast Pride said they had a conservative guess of 12,000 people coming to the event. There was something for everyone. Vendors lined Main Street and concerts were held all day on the main stage.
ST. LOUIS — Charles E. Patton, 33, of Salem, Ill. was charged with property damage motivated by discrimination, trespass motivated by discrimination and second-degree burglary in an attack on a home in the Soulard area of St. Louis. The St.
ST. LOUIS — Pride St. Louis, the organizer of the city’s main Pride Parade, has asked the St. Louis police not to march in uniform in this year’s parade. PSL made the announcement in a Facebook post:
Pride St Louis, Inc. Board of Directors has asked, and they have agreed that the St Louis Police Department and St.
ST. LOUIS — Winner of numerous awards including an acclaimed Tony-winning run on Broadway, “Indecent” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, is the true story of a groundbreaking scandalous play and the courageous artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it. “Indecent” runs June 20th through June 30th at The Grandel Theatre in the Grand Center Arts District. Visit maxandlouie.com or call Metrotix (314) 534-1111 for tickets. After a rapturous reception in Europe, Sholem Asch’s drama, “God of Vengeance” debuted on Broadway in 1923 at a time when waves of immigrants were changing the face of America.