Two of Western Pennsylvania’s most trusted HIV/AIDS service organizations, Allies for Health + Wellbeing and Shepherd Wellness Community, are grappling with abrupt and deeply damaging funding cuts from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. These cuts include a 25% reduction to ...
In this episode of Pride Matters, Jeff welcomes TJ Murphy, Executive Director of Reel Q to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Pittsburgh’s iconic LGBTQ+ film festival, Reel Q. Explore how ReelQ has evolved into the 6th oldest queer film festival ...
QBurgh is turning five, and we’re throwing a full-on queer celebration in print! The Fall/Winter 2025 issue drops tomorrow just in time for LGBTQ+ History Month, spotlighting Pittsburgh’s fiercest changemakers, artists, and community orgs, while reflecting on five years of ...
Big Freedia’s voice has always been a force — loud, joyful, defiant — but on her new album, “Pressing Onward,” it becomes something even more powerful: a vessel for healing. The Queen of Bounce returns to her gospel origins on ...
The party doesn’t have to stop when the last Pride float rolls away in late summer. From Florida’s winter paradise to New York’s frozen lakes, queer communities are claiming new territory on the calendar, creating Winter Pride celebrations that feel ...
Just as the leaves are starting to fall here in Pittsburgh, readers can swear they can also hear the sound of jingle bells and caroling. Local authors and couple Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick are back to remind us that ...
Welcome to The Quickie, Central Outreach Wellness Center’s monthly rundown of blogs, events, and health tips, served with sass and zero shame. It’s short, sexy, and gets right to the good stuff, and it’s delivered in part by QBurgh. At Central Outreach Wellness ...
As of this writing, Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air. Thank the holy Jesus. America’s constitutional crisis is finally over. Oh say can you see. Let freedom ring. Hallelujah. Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-koo-sa. Magnifico (oh oh oh oh). Sorry, I ...
The Steel City Softball League’s (SCSL) Little Pigs proudly represented Pittsburgh at the International Pride Gay Softball World Series, held last week in Houston, Texas. Competing in a field of 57 teams, the Little Pigs placed an impressive 13th in ...
Israeli-born Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie seeks love, peace, and joy, and, in doing so, breaks with the cultural and religious strictures of Orthodox Judaism as he champions LGBTQ+ rights in a conservative society in Sandi Simcha DuBowski’s documentary, “Sabbath Queen.” The ...
advertisement With the recent closure of Rite Aid pharmacies, many people are looking for alternatives to get their prescriptions filled. For patients at Allies for Health + Wellbeing, Allies Pharmacy offers convenience, cost savings and cultural competency. Since Allies Pharmacy ...
Imagine a protest outside the funeral of a popular political leader, with some of the protesters celebrating the death and holding signs that say things like “God Hates the USA/Thank God for 9/11,” “America is Doomed” and “Don’t Pray for ...
The preservation of history is one of the ways that society learns, develops, and grows. It’s how we know the history of our land, where our ancestors come from, and even acts as a warning regarding dark times. What we ...
Complaint Filed Against UPMC Children’s Hospital Over Termination of Gender-Affirming Care for Youth
The Women’s Law Project and law firm Berger Montague filed a formal complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) on Tuesday against UPMC Children’s Hospital, alleging that the hospital unlawfully denied gender-affirming care to transgender patients under the age ...
What is the meaning of your life? That’s a big question. One that most of us go through our lives, never getting an answer to. But, for artist, creator, and performer David Roussève, that question is essential to his everyday ...
Fresh off his most recent visit, Pittsburgh Pride 2025 headliner David Archuleta is returning to the Steel City on October 14 at the Thunderbird Café and Music Hall in Lawrenceville during a multi-city “Earthly Delights Music Tour.” The former American ...
A group of Pittsburgh-area parents are calling out UPMC Children’s Hospital for what they describe as a failure to protect the medical privacy and rights of transgender youth, following a federal subpoena that may compromise patient records. On June 11, ...
The Backyard Docs Film Festival returns to Pittsburgh from September 25 to 28, and this year’s lineup promises a deeply moving slate of films that center identity, memory, and queerness, particularly within the context of home. Formerly known as the ...
A new study from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF) and Whistle Stop Capital has delivered the receipts: LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion isn’t just good ethics, it’s a smart, sustainable business strategy. The analysis, based on 15 years of data from ...
If you or a loved one are in crisis, please call or text 988 or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a live volunteer crisis counselor. Originally published by our partners at The19th on September 17, 2025. Sens. Tammy ...
In Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese’s award-winning directorial debut, Lesbian Space Princess, outer space emerges as a new and inclusive habitat for a smart, funny story exploring the inner spaces of lesbian consciousness and self-affirmation. The film pushes hard against the ...
Each year, Pittsburgh City Paper invites its readers to weigh in on the city’s standout people, places, and businesses across a wide range of categories, from nightlife and fashion to health and community service. In this year’s Best of Pittsburgh ...
“Do Queer Sh*t!” That has been the official motto since the very first Midwest Queer Comedy Festival back in 2017, from the lips of its founder and executive director, Cleveland comedian Dwayne Duke. This colorful battle cry was born of ...
Here comes the first feature film from the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” extended universe, and though it has no title just yet, RuPaul’s character has a perfectly appropriate “Drag Race” name: President Gagwell. Because of course. From gay director Adam Shankman ...
There’s nothing like a Sunday night full of carbs and queens! Hosted by Pittsburgh queens Indica and Luna Skye, RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16’s Plane Jane brought together drag lovers, pasta fanatics, and Pittsburgh’s queer nightlife regulars for a wildly ...
The Steel City Softball League hosted a mini-tournament this past weekend in West Mifflin. The event, which took place on Saturday, September 13th, saw the Little Pigs, the Rainbow Mafia, the Glitter Bombs, and the Growlers play in a round-robin ...
When Harvard professor and celebrated poet Stephanie Burt listens to Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen,” she doesn’t just hear a bittersweet teenage memory wrapped in twangy chords and locker-lined hallways. She hears the sound of a girlhood she never got to live ...
The City of Pittsburgh has announced the launch of its inaugural OUTfest, a new LGBTQIA+ community celebration scheduled for Saturday, October 11, 2025, coinciding with National Coming Out Day. The event will take place at Hazelwood Green from 3:00 PM ...
Originally published by our partners at The19th on September 11, 2025. There’s good news for LGBTQ+ married couples who want to stay married: The Supreme Court is not likely to overturn marriage equality any time soon. Alarms were raised recently ...
It’s been 24 years since the September 11th attacks. A morning that fractured reality as we knew it and reshaped everything from airport security to foreign policy. For many who were alive at the time, the memory of where they ...
First it was referred to as a “mysterious illness.” Later it was called “gay cancer,” “gay plague” and “GRID,” an acronym for gay-related immune deficiency. Most egregiously, some called it “4H disease” – shorthand for “homosexuals, heroin addicts, hemophiliacs and ...
On September 8, the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh became a procession of grief and defiance as over 100 trans organizers, healthcare workers, and community allies marched from Mellon Square to the steps of UPMC’s headquarters at the U.S. Steel Tower. ...
It’s rare today for an art world star to become a recognized name in mainstream popular culture, but Keith Haring, whose bold, graphic, cartoon-like illustrations went from subway station graffiti to high-end galleries and, after his untimely AIDS death in ...
I recognize it immediately. Even through the pouring rain as I walk down an Upper Lawrenceville alleyway towards my apartment, I know what it is. Tomorrow is garbage day, so people have already thrown out cans, bags, busted chairs. But ...
Since 2017, the crosswalk near Pulse in Orlando has been painted with rainbow colors to recognize and honor the 49 people killed and 53 people wounded there in 2016 in a mass shooting. Recently, that rainbow crosswalk was painted over ...
Updated September 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM. It’s no surprise to fans of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Season 17, that the Steel City’s Lydia Butthole Kollins is dating the Black Barbie of Boston, Kori King. In a bizarre twist of television ...
By the time my conversation with Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney wrapped, I was still trying to figure out how to categorize “Twinless” — and whether I even wanted to. The film, out September 5 after premiering to buzzy acclaim ...
Sean Meloy, a political strategist and native of Western Pennsylvania, has been elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s LGBTQ Caucus. His appointment puts him in a key leadership position within the national Democratic Party, where he will help shape ...
In a weekend soaked with sequins, talent, and history, Pittsburgh’s own Joey Young sashayed into the national spotlight, placing Top 5 and winning the Interview category at Miss Continental 2026, Joey’s first time competing in the world’s most prestigious drag ...
Dating apps are like queer magic portals, a little chaotic, a little sparkly, and a whole lot of potential for fun, flirtation, and feeling yourself. Whether you’re looking for your next great love, a makeout in the moonlight, or just ...
September is stacked with queer magic. As we say goodbye to the summer heat and hello to cooler nights and cozy vibes, the queer and trans communities of Pittsburgh (and beyond!) are throwing open their doors, stages, studios, and dance ...
President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically reshaped health and medical research by rolling back federal funding from institutions that have diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and by cutting federal funding for research projects that the administration considers related to DEI. As of Aug. ...
RAINBOW WASHED AWAY: Orlando fights back after Pulse memorial erased In the dead of night on August 21, workers from Governor Ron DeSantis’ Department of Transportation rolled gray paint over a rainbow crosswalk near the site of the 2016 Pulse ...
President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person’s gender departing from their sex assigned at birth, or lose federal funding. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for ...
Evan Lakatos was just trying to meet someone. Working long hours as a deli operations manager overseeing 64 locations across Michigan, the 38-year-old gay man relied on dating apps to connect with others — especially in rural areas where “there’s ...
Calvary United Methodist Church, a historic church built approximately twenty years after the Civil War on Pittsburgh’s North Side, is changing with the times. Not only is the building known for its French Gothic spires and 30-foot high kaleidoscopic Tiffany ...
What do you get when two of drag’s boldest rule-breakers turn their creative tension into a pop anthem? A total knockout, literally. With their debut musical collaboration, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” stars and “No Gorge” podcast co-hosts Gottmik and Violet Chachki ...
Consensual non-monogamy is a surprisingly popular relationship style. Some research from North America suggests as many as one in 20 people may be in a polyamorous, swinging or open relationship – with one in five saying they’d like to try it. Although ...
Online game marketplaces itch.io and Valve’s Steam have recently delisted or completely removed more than 20,000 titles from their storefronts, after not-for-profit group Collective Shout pressured payment processors to change their rules. Although Collective Shout claims the move was about censoring games that depict rape ...
You’ve been watching videos of Cynthia Erivo throwing down with Adam Lambert at the Hollywood Bowl as Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar,” but now the “Wicked” star has another stage role lined up: Dracula. Erivo will star in a one-person ...