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Three stories. One quick queer news update. Let’s get into it:
Local activist Kits Blanc, aka the Endo King, is sharing his experience navigating endometriosis as a trans man - from severe pain and medical dismissal to transphobia in healthcare. By getting vulnerable online, he’s building solidarity and pushing for better, more inclusive patient care.
Prospect Drive in Schenley Park has decades of queer history as Pittsburgh’s historic “Fruit Loop,” from cruising and picnics to Pride, worship services, and an AIDS Memorial Garden. Now, the City is designing a new DPW maintenance facility for the area.
Summer might be winding down, but the queer joy isn’t. The Washington County Gay Straight Alliance is gathering TODAY for live performances, music, community, and a fundraiser supporting its year-round programming.
Dolly Parton picked up the phone for queer press when most of country music wouldn’t. She talked about her gay family, trans employees, drag name, and the radical simplicity of loving people as they are. Full story link in bio.
The Pride display came down. The questions haven’t stopped. Monroeville residents are calling for resignations, a code of conduct, and an investigation into how officials handled the library controversy. Full story link in bio.
“You can just sort of exist as you are.”
Sometimes queer community is exactly that simple and exactly that important.
We visited Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance to hear from LGBTQ+ students about finding community on campus, exploring sexuality and gender, trying on (and changing!) labels, and meeting the people who help you understand yourself a little better.
And queer space doesn’t always have to be something huge. Sometimes it’s studying together. Making bracelets. Painting. Hanging out. Taking a nap.
It’s having somewhere you know you can show up as yourself even when you’re still figuring out exactly who that is.
Pittsburgh’s self-proclaimed Endo King @kitsblanc is turning chronic pain, medical dismissal, and online hate into advocacy and reminding the world that endometriosis has no gender. Full story link in bio.
