The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is offering guests a unique experience: the chance to recollect memories they may have long forgotten. In the library’s do-it-yourself ...
In the A24 film “Pillion,” kink is neither punchline nor provocation. Instead, writer-director Harry Lighton and stars Alexander Skarsgård of “True Blood” and Harry Melling, ...
THEN → NOW → WHEN | Harrison Apple & the Pittsburgh Queer History Project
Mayor O’Connor and Chief Lando Address LGBTQ Issues, ICE Policy, and Pride
Kevin Williamson knows fear. He’s been shaping it, scripting it and watching it slice through movie theaters for 30 years. But with “Scream 7,” he’s doing something new: directing it himself. For the first time, he’s revisiting the world he ...
The Shenango Valley Pride Alliance, located about 90 minutes north of Pittsburgh and serving as Mercer County’s first LGBTQIA+ community support center and organizer of ...
Do you remember when Joaquin Phoenix dropped out of Todd Haynes’ planned gay romantic drama? And he did it just days before filming was due ...
A new sapphic-centered café is officially open in Garfield. The Soft Spot has opened its doors as a sober, accessibility-focused gathering space for queer community ...
Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O’Connor and newly appointed Police Chief Jason Lando joined QBurgh for a wide-ranging conversation on this latest episode of Pride Matters, discussing ...
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Pittsburgh City Council has declared March 10 “@centraloutreach Day,” recognizing a decade of inclusive healthcare serving LGBTQIA+ communities and others across Western PA. Full details link in bio.
Old tapes. Lost voices. Forgotten moments. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Recollection Studio helps digitize old tapes, photos, & film preserving memories that might be lost. It’s also helping QBurgh expand the archives of Pittsburgh LGBTQ history. Full details link in bio.
In the face of authoritarian crackdowns on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, we need bravery more than ever. Read the full article link in bio.
Metro Community Health Center provides integrated medical, mental health, and dental care to ALL, regardless of ability to pay. More info link in bio.
When we talk about strengthening local news, let’s be specific about what that means on the ground.
It means covering trans and nonbinary Pittsburghers beyond moments of legislative panic, telling stories that reflect full, complex lives instead of crisis headlines. It means documenting queer nightlife as culture and community infrastructure, not spectacle, and reporting on mutual aid networks, drag fundraisers, and grassroots organizing with the seriousness they deserve. It means amplifying LGBTQ+-owned small businesses as economic anchors, archiving our history before it disappears, and paying queer writers, photographers, and creatives fairly for their labor. It means treating sex-positive spaces not as fringe curiosities, but as legitimate, vibrant parts of civic life in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
QBurgh has been doing this work. Full article link in bio.
