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St. Louis Gay Capital Guide: What to Know if You’re Headed to the Gateway City

St. Louis is a capital known for many things. It’s the home of the St. Louis Cardinals, Budweiser Brewing Firm, the famous Gateway Arch, and gooey butter cake, among other things. It’s also a capital becoming increasingly well-known for its affectionate, welcoming, and continually growing LGBTQ collective that adds so much to the character and character of the urban area itself. It’s truly a multi-cultural midwestern city where everyone can find their place.

A Look at St. Louis History

The modern-day history of St. Louis began in 1764 when French settlers established a fur-trading send in the area. Construction of a village began the following year, and the village was named St. Louis, after King Louis IX of France. As a product of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, St. Louis officially became part of the United States. Shortly thereafter, St. Louis gained fame as the direct from which Lewis and Clark embarked on their exploration of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase territories. It was officially incorporated as a city in 1832 and grew steadily as a center of commerce and trade from that point on.

From the mid-1930s to end of the 1970s, there was an almost continuous presence of sapphic and gay establishments here. For generations of LGBTQ St. Louisans, Grand and Olive was a favorite destination for a evening out and an important setting of their social lives.

The 3500 block of Olive is in Grand Center, a neighborhood that is today home to such major cultural institutions as the Fox Theatre and Powell Hall. It is also near the main campus of Saint Louis University.

Going back as far as the early twentieth century, this area was a hectic entertainment district. Its central location and proximity to several streetcar lines and major roads made it a relatively convenient gathering place for people living throughout the St. Louis area. In 1915, the St. Louis Republic called the neighborhood around Grand and Olive “a place of music and laughter and bustle and bright lights, of adorable women and carefree men.”

As far as we know, Dante’s Inferno (3516 Olive) was the first gay bar on the block. It is also one of the oldest identified gay bars anywhere in St. Louis. It opened in March 1936, only a few years after the repeal of Prohibition, as a “branch” of t

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STL LGBTQ+ ORGANIZATIONS

NON-PROFIT

PHONE

ADDRESS

ACLU of Eastern MO

(314) 652-3111

454 Whittier St St. Louis, MO 63108

ALIVE

(314) 993-7080

P.O. Box 28733 St. Louis, MO 63146

Band Together

4579 Laclede Ave #259 St. Louis, MO 63108

Black Tulip Chorale

(651) 955-9532

3547 Olive, # 206, St. Louis, MO 63103

CHARIS - The St. Louis Women's Chorus

(314) 664-9340

Doorways Interfaith AIDS, Housing & Services

(314) 535-1919

4385 Maryland Ave Saint Louis, MO 63108

Equality Illinois

(773) 477-7173

17 N. State Street Chicago, IL 60602

Food Outreach

(314) 652-FOOD (3663)

3117 Olive St St. Louis, MO 63103

Gateway Men's Chorus

314-287-5669

3547 Olive St Suite 300 St. Louis, MO 63103

Growing American Youth

(314) 669-5428 (LGBT)

408 N. Euclid, Suite 210 St. Louis, MO 63108

Human Rights Campaign - St. Louis

Metro East Identity of Southwestern Illinois

(314) 686-1915

P.O. Box 794 Belleville, IL 62222

Metro Trans* Umbrella Group

(314) 349-1402

3133 Oregon Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118

Planned Parenthood

(314) 531-7526

4251 Forest Park Ave St. L