St.LouisQueer+SupportHelpline

Our mission is to support and empower the St. Louis LGBTQIA+ community through:

Non-hierarchical, peer-based emotional support and non-judgmental space-holding, rooted in the principles of healingjustice, community care, and holisticwellness;

Fostering connections with identity-affirming resources, rooted in the principles of mutualaid and interdependence; Building community power and systems of feedback and accountability, rooted in the principles of transformativejustice and abolition;

Facilitating education and advocacy to uplift queer St. Louisans’ stories, rooted in the principles of oralhistory and intersectionality.

To carry out our mission, SQSH operates sixcoreprograms:

PeerSupportWarmline, to provide free, confidential, identityaffirming emotional support and resource referrals

SQSHBookResourceDatabase, to provide community-vetted, transparent resource referrals

StorytellingandAdvocacy, to promote systems-change informed by community voices and stories

STARLINGCollective, to promote anti-carceral community healing

EducationfortheQueerCommunity, to promote intra-community skill-building and peer-based healing

AllyshipTrainingforPartners, to promote knowledge-sharing and cultural humility among other ecosystem stakeholders