Mike has been chronicling Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ scene since the late 70s, when he was a writer and editor for Pittsburgh's Out.  Not content to just write about the expanding LGBTQ society in the Steel City, he played an active part in it.  He played various positions in the Steel City Softball League (not successfully) and, for 20-plus years, hit spares and strikes (and plenty of misses) in the Steel City Bowling League.  In addition to a short term on the Lambda Foundation board and two stints on the Pitt Men’s Study community advisory board, Mike was a founding board member of the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, now known as Allies for Health + Wellbeing.  In subsequent years he has freelanced for local LGBTQ publications.  Now retired, Mike enjoys cycling Pittsburgh’s streets and trails, and indulging a lifelong travel bug to new sites and old favorites in Europe.