via Metro East Pride of Southwestern Illinois (MEPSI)
Metro East Pride partners with LGBT History Project of St. Louis
(BELLEVILLE)
MetroEast Pride of Southwestern Illinois (MEPSI) is proud to partner with the St. Louis Gay History Project to help build up the Project's collection of Metro East memorabilia.
Did you know same sex dancing was first allowed at The Red Bull in East St. Louis in the late 1960s when you couldn't dance together across the river? Looking for any matchbooks, business cards, wooden nickels, posters, signage, photographs etc. from the 1960s era gay bars in ESL - The Red Bull, PK's, Newsroom, Grapevine, Helen Schrader's, Olde English Inn, Green Parrot and early Faces and City Center nightclub. Also early Belleville, Wood River and Alton Gay Bars: Old Cow Street Inn, Fantasy Corner, Char Pei, The Gathering Place, Lil's, Rendezvoux, Alton Metro, Club Zips, Circus, etc. Let's preserve our history for future generations.
