We envision a just, equitable St. Louis where people of all genders and sexualities live with love, safety, and abundance.
We strengthen the St. Louis queer community by building our collective skills for peer support, active listening, and navigating conflict / harm.
We increase queer St. Louisans’ access to resources by increasing resource transparency and accountability.
We amplify queer, radical values within local systems through research justice, storytelling, and advocacy.
We mobilize community partners towards a shared vision for queer liberation through building trust and long-term relationships.
Our ultimate goal is to challenge oppressive systems by building collective power and facilitating transformative healing – by and for the St. Louis queer/LGBTQIA+ community.
SQSH Announcements
By the St. Louis Queer/LGBTQIA+ community
Our mission is to support and empower the queer/LGBTQIA+ community in the St. Louis MO-IL Metro Area and beyond—by facilitating healing spaces and building our community’s capacity for peer support, education, advocacy, storytelling, shared leadership, transformative justice, and systems change. We aim to create alternative models, strategies, and practices that move our community closer to prison/police abolition and collective liberation.
For the St. Louis Queer/LGBTQIA+ community
We center the St. Louis queer/LGBTQIA+ community’s self-determination and access to an array of resources. We practice, explore, and learn from a variety of strategies to interrupt, prevent, and transform harm – including peer support, resource connections, political education, storytelling, conflict mediation, and expansive avenues to collective healing.
We invest in community care, long-term relationship-building, power-sharing, youth empowerment, and non-punitive accountability.
Meet Our Collective
Our SQSH community is made up of a dedicated group of queer & trans St. Louisans. As marginalized people with various identities and lived experiences but who share a queer politic, we situate ourselves within a community-based movement that aims to end violence without reliance on the police industrial complex (PIC), medical industrial complex (MIC), or other harmful institutions.
Support our work by becoming a
SQSH Star Monthly Donor!
Our monthly donors are a vital part of SQSH, just like stars are a vital part of our galaxy. As a SQSH Star, you are not only supporting SQSH’s transformative programs, but joining a powerful movement of people committed to queer liberation.
