WerqFest at pridefest 2026
WerQfest is a cultural platform rooted in live experiences, amplifying Black queer creatives through music, storytelling, and community-driven content.
The Hive Stage is a celebration of Black queer sound, energy, and community—and we’d love for you to help set the tone. This stage is all about creating an intentional, high-vibe space for community to gather, move, and celebrate.
Friends & Frequencies Session 01: Find Your Frequency
At its core, Friends & Frequencies is an invitation to slow down, discover something new, and connect with people beyond your usual circles.
Built around music, conversation, and community, each gathering is designed to spark curiosity, foster meaningful connections, and create space for discovery, whether that’s a new artist, a new perspective, or a new friendship.
If you’ve been looking for something more intentional than a party and more organic than a networking event, this is for you.
21+ Event. Tickets available on Posh: https://posh.vip/e/friends-frequencies-find-your-frequency
Pride party at Handlebar
Closing Pride Month with a bang! Come and dance with us in the gay-borhood all night long 🥳🏳️🌈🪩
21+ Only
Rainbow Connection: Pride Market at Sophie's
For years, Rainbow City Market has been one of our favorite Pride traditions, bringing together artists, makers, vintage curators, and small businesses to celebrate queer joy, self expression, and the people who help make our city shine. Whether you’re coming to shop, dance, connect, or simply take it all in, there’s something here for everyone⚧️
🪩MUSIC BY: @djmonieloveee & @djkc_mackey_
🍽️FOOD BY: @straightdown55
🍸GREY GOOSE TASTINGS & SPECIALTY COCKTAILS | 7-9 PM
💖 FREE | ALL AGES
💫FEATURING:
🎟️ @matistlouis TICKET RAFFLE
🛍️ @wallsoffwashington MARKET
🏬 @chunkys.vintage
⚜️CITY VENDORS: @Toomanybloops @usha.nga ❤️ @oddwayout 🧡@Kailynelonie 💛 @Pinkfairythings @MyBleedingHeartDesigns @spiritscapesss 💚 @mp_inks @ReanimatedHelix 💙 @thegalacticdorks
💜Bring a friend, find your next favorite artist, and celebrate Pride with us one good find at a time. See you at the market.
Juneteenth at Platypus
This Juneteenth, join me at Platypus as I take a trip through time to share the music that shaped America across generations, from the early contributions of gospel, soul, and funk to the evolutions of rock n roll, hip-hop, regional sounds, and beyond.
This is a celebration of freedom, creativity, resistance, and legacy. See you on the dancefloor ✊🏽🎶
21+ only. Donations encouraged to support Platypus.
Hairpins Pride
HAIRPINS PRIDE: LITTLE ROCK 💖🫦👙🪽💫🫧🍒
“Hairpins has officially graduated to a bigger venue and we are stoked to bring a glitter-fied Pride celebration for all of the Arkansas lesbians, queers, and gender-diverse cuties to @stickyzlr in downtown Little Rock for the first time on June 13!!! We are soOoOo excited to welcome back @djmonieloveee to the LIT stage, and we can’t wait to unveil all the surprises we have in store for this year. Flash tats? Tooth gems, anyone?
Spend the day celebrating ✨gay✨ at SoMa Pride, and end the night dancing under the stage lights with your lovers, your homies, your enemies, or just ✨you✨ Seriously… let your hair down!!! 🎀
9pm-1am | 21+ | $15 tickets now, $20 week-of”
Rooftop Rhythm
Sooo excited to make my Art Bar debut this Saturday!!! 🎶🖼️🍸 Pull up from 8pm to midnight for a night of good music, good energy, and a little bit of everything in the mix.
21+ | In partnership with Affluent Taste Entertainment
Dropping hairpins
Hairpins: A Night for Lesbians & Queers (@droppinghairpins) returns to STL on March 13th celebrating 314 Day weekend at Platypus (@drinkplatypus)
"Friends, lovers, enemies, and solo queers, trans & nonbinary individuals are all invited to the dance floor, mixed and managed by none other than @djmonieloveee. Whether we met you over Tower Grove Pride weekend or it’ll be your first time at a Hairpins event, we promise you’ll feel the sapphic magic ✨"
This event is 21+
Regular Tickets: $15
Week-Of Tickets: $20
Purchase tickets here.
Learn more about the event organizer by visiting their website here.
Anything But A Business Card
Anything But a Business Card is a fresh take on professional connection without the pressure, the pitch, or the stiff networking energy. Whether you’re in tech, the arts, education, healthcare, nonprofit, entrepreneurship, government, or a field that doesn’t fit into a box, this event creates space for genuine connection among young professionals aged 21–35 in St. Louis.
Come connect with people who are building careers, shifting industries, starting businesses, and making a quiet impact across the city without rehearsing a 30-second pitch or passing around business cards.
Purchase tickets here.
Learn more about what to expect and what to bring on the ticketing website.
Red Hot Hairpins (Valentine's Day)
RED HOT HAIRPINS: A Sexy, Sapphic Valentine’s for Lesbians & Queers 🔥💋❤️
“We are so excited to bring back this event for an absolute LOVE-fest of a weekend. Come with your sweetheart or find one at Hairpins—whatever you do, we know it will be RED HOT.”
This event is 21+
Regular Tickets: $15
Week-Of Tickets: $20
Purchase tickets here
Learn more about the event organizer by visiting their website here.
Luv At Your Speed 4.0
Black love is Black wealth. Let us keep at it, aiming far beyond mediocrity! See you at #LoveAtYourSpeed 4.0. Bring a friend. Sunday 2.8 @uncttsplace, ofc 💕
Black Love convos & rotations 3-4, Games 4-5p
Guest Set w/DJ jillian
Come kick it at one of The Grove’s most popular queer party destinations for a nice of dancing and grooves. Guest set by DJ Monie Loveee followed by headliner DJ Jillian (@djjillian), founder of Queertown Underground and resident of Sapphic Factory (@sapphicfactory)
21+ event
Tickets: Free before 10pm, $5 after at door
New Years Day Party
Step into 2026 with good energy and even better music. Recs N Threads is kicking off the new year with a daytime party designed to reset your vibe and reconnect you with your people. Resident DJ Monie Loveee will be on the decks, blending genres, textures, and sounds to ease you into the year while still giving you space to celebrate. Pull up, shop a little, dance a little, and let’s start the year grounded, grateful, and in rhythm.
Guests are encouraged to provide their own beverages, and light refreshments will be provided on a first come, first served basis.
This event is 21+ | Entry is free.99
AfroSexyCool NYE Party
✨ AFROSEXYCOOL NYE 2026✨
“Say peace to ‘25 and say hello to ‘26 with ASC vet Blvck Spvde and ASC creator James Biko plus the one and only DJ Monie Loveee making her ASC debut!!!
AFROSEXYCOOL is an afro-cultural arts + fashion + music + dance event celebrating the many dope facets of Blackness while connecting the musical dots of the African diaspora
Be prepared for rhythmic gyrations, high-stepping, clapping and singing to the sounds of Afrobeat, Soul, R&B, House, Hip-Hop, Trap, Bounce, Dancehall, and more
Come show off your Africa and fall off into a night of PURE BLACK JOY”
This event is 21+ | Ticket options available now by clicking here
Hairpins: A Night for Lesbians & Queers
Hairpins: A Night for Lesbians & Queers (@droppinghairpins) returns to STL on December 6th, this time partnering with the dive bar of every dyke’s dream, Platypus (@drinkplatypus)
"Friends, lovers, enemies, and solo queers, trans & nonbinary individuals are all invited to the dance floor, mixed and managed by none other than @djmonieloveee. Whether we met you over Tower Grove Pride weekend or it’ll be your first time at a Hairpins event, we promise you’ll feel the sapphic magic ✨"
This event is 21+
Regular Tickets: $15
Week-Of Tickets: $20
Learn more about the event organizer by visiting their website here.
Luv At Your Speed 3.0
Meet me for the official grand reopening of Ethical Bodies + The Good-ish at their new location on Cherokee Street. Come through for "Luv at Your Speed"— a speed dating and slow friending event where you just might meet your match. Hosted by Jay-Marie is Holy and Phree Will.