Resident Partner, The St. Louis LGBT History Project Seeks Volunteers for Oral History Training at Center

ST. LOUIS - Are you interested in the history of St. Louis and its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities?

 

Do you enjoy hearing elders' stories and reflections and learning from them?

Are you an attentive and thoughtful listener? 

  

Then we need your help! 

The St. Louis LGBT History Project is seeking volunteers to conduct oral history interviews. An oral history is a carefully planned interview, normally several hours long, that attempts to turn a person's memories into a rich and revealing historical document. The St. Louis LGBT History Project plans to record the oral histories of many of the people who have helped shape queer St. Louis, from the edge of living memory to the present. 

 

If you are interested in being a volunteer oral history interviewer, please let us know. All interviewers must complete a training session that will address oral history theory and interviewing techniques and will review local and national queer history.

 

An oral history workshop will be held in August at the LGBT Center of St. Louis (4337 Manchester Ave.) The subsequent oral history interviews will also be held at The Center.

  

Please contact us The Project’s Ian Darnell at darnell.ian@gmail.com if you are interested or have any questions or comments.

  

Founded in 2007, The St. Louis LGBT History Project is a resident partner of The LGBT Center of St. Louis and operated by Steven Brawley (founder), Colin Murphy and Ian Darnell. The mission of The Project is to preserve the myriad stories of The Gateway City's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender past. The Project serves as the unofficial collecting arm for the St. Louis LGBT Archives  at UMSL, conducts and facilitates oral histories with area LGBT Elders, works with area LGBT organizations on maintaining their own archive, and seeks out and preserves LGBT history, documents, artifacts and memorabilia.

 

The Project has developed a LGBT Walking Tour in the city's Central West End, is available to speak on St. Louis’ LGBT History and provides displays from The Project collection. The goal of The Project is to not only celebrate and preserve our city’s LGBT History, but make it accessible through digital media. For more information check out their  Facebook page or visit  www.stlouisgayhistory.com.

The Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender
Community Center of
Metropolitan St. Louis
4337 Manchester Ave
St. Louis, MO 63110
http://www.lgbtcenterstl.org
info@lgbtcenterstl.org

Resident Partner, The St. Louis LGBT History Project to Provide Displays at Center

The LGBT Center of St. Louis has joined with the St. Louis LGBT History Project. Operated by Steve Brawley (founder), Colin Murphy and Ian Darnell, The Project celebrates, documents and preserves the myriad stories of The Gateway City’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender past. Pieces from The Project will be on rotating display at the LGBT Center of St. Louis. Further, The Project will contribute to LGBTeach and our other programming.

The theme for The Project's first Center display is PRIDE and will debut at the grand re-opening on July 17th.  Featured throughout The Center will be photographs from early St. Louis PrideFest celebrations by Wilbur Wegener and Scott Lokitz; vintage Pride St. Louis posters, artwork and t-shirts and mayoral and aldermanic pride proclamations.

Founded in 2007, The St. Louis LGBT History Project serves as the unofficial collecting arm for the St. Louis LGBT Archives at UMSL, conducts and facilitates oral histories with area LGBT Elders, works with area LGBT organizations on maintaining their own archive, and seeks out and preserves LGBT history, documents, artifacts and memorabilia. The Project has developed a LGBT Walking Tour in the city's Central West End, is available to speak on St. Louis’ LGBT History and provides displays from The Project collection. The goal of The Project is to not only celebrate and preserve our city’s LGBT History, but make it accessible through digital media. For more information check out their Facebook page or visit www.stlouisgayhistory.com.

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The Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender
Community Center of
Metropolitan St. Louis
4337 Manchester Ave
St. Louis, MO 63110
http://www.lgbtcenterstl.org
info@lgbtcenterstl.org

Volunteer for the LGBT Center of St. Louis at PrideFest this weekend!

Calling all volunteers!

The LGBT Center of St. Louis needs your help this weekend at PrideFest! We will have a booth set up at booth #105 in the Unity Plaza, slightly south of the main street by the main stage. We need volunteers to staff the booth and help share the exciting new changes at the LGBT Center of St. Louis and our upcoming Grand Re-Opening on July 17th. Additionally, we’ll need your help signing people up for our email list and to volunteer.

What we’re looking for is to have at least 2 people in the booth at all times, and that volunteers work a minimum of 2 hours. We’ll direct any over-flow of volunteers to circulate the park with clip-boards to get people signed up to receive our emails. This is a great opportunity to help the LGBT Center of St. Louis grow and unite the community.

Please email volunteer@lgbtcenterstl.org to sign up for shift(s). Please spread the word to your friends and contacts. If you have any questions, please contact myself or our President, Leon Braxton.

The LGBT Center of St. Louis: (314) 472-5428 (LGBT)

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The LGBT Center of St. Louis
4337 Manchester Ave
St. Louis, MO 63110
http://www.lgbtcenterstl.org
info@lgbtcenterstl.org

Alderman Shane Cohn Joins Center Board

ST. LOUIS – The LGBT Center of St. Louis announced, May 27 the addition of St. Louis Alderman Shane Cohn to its Board of Directors.

Cohn was elected in 2009 and represents the city's 25th ward. He is the city's first openly gay elected official.

"I am very pleased and honored to have such a wonderful public figure on the Board of The LGBT Center of St. Louis," said Center Board President, Leon Braxton. "Alderman Cohn's addition to our board only makes our community Center stronger."

In May 2010 Cohn sponsored and won unanimous approval of a bill to add "gender identity" to the list of characteristics protected by municipal law against discrimination in housing, public accommodations, and employment.

"As we continue to journey toward equal rights, I'm happy to join the Board of this organization which is striving to provide much needed resources to the St. Louis LGBT community," said Cohn.

The LGBT Center of St. Louis was realized following the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s 2004 Creating Change Conference in St. Louis. Last month The Center was temporarily shuttered to prepare for its move to 4337 Manchester Avenue in the heart of The Grove neighborhood. The Center will reopen in June before PrideFest.

Cohn will join LGBT Center of St. Louis Board members Leon Braxton, Dara Strickland, Colin Lovett, Rick Norlin, Colin Murphy, Heidi Clark, Scott Emanuel, and Cindy Walker.

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The Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender
Community Center of
Metropolitan St. Louis
4337 Manchester Ave
St. Louis, MO 63110
http://www.findmycenter.com
info@findmycenter.com

May 1, 2011 - The LGBT has MOVED!

Hello all,

As you may have heard, the LGBT Center of St. Louis closed its doors at its Euclid location and has moved to a NEW location at 4337 Manchester Rd in the Grove neighborhood.

All meetings, workshops, and programs have been temporarily postponed and/or redirected to other locations.

During the month of May we have been hard at work moving into and beautifying the new Center location.

Our grand opening of the new location is set for July 17th, 2011. Please refer to the website, blogs and Facebook for announcements regarding volunteering and our status. If you have any further questions, please email our Board President, Leon Braxton at leonabraxton@hotmail.com.

Thank you all for your patience and support as we transition into a larger space and become better equipped to serve the LGBT community of St. Louis.

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The Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender
Community Center of
Metropolitan St. Louis
P.O. Box 4715
St. Louis, MO 63108-4715
http://www.findmycenter.com
info@findmycenter.com