July 9, 2025: After the amazing success of the Gateway to Pride exhibition at the Missouri History Museum, people are asking what is next? Will the work go on? The answer is a resounding YES - in many ways.

The St. Louis LGBT History Project will continue to partner with area organizations (including the Missouri History Museum and many others) to advance the study of St. Louis's lavender ancestors. Since 2007, Project Founder Steven Louis Brawley has been sheparding a strategic effort to "queer" the collections of area archives/museum/libraries.

Specifically, the Missouri History Museum has honored Brawley by creating the Steven Louis Brawley Endowment Fund to ensure funding and resources will be available for the Museum to continue collecting artifacts and oral histories to further advance its growing LGBTQIA+ collection. The Project and Museum look forward to future discoveries that will help unearth St. Louis's dynamic queer past and tell the stories of its pioneering ancestors. Brawley photo by Mark Moore.

Donate to Steven Louis Brawley Endowment Fund