There’s a lot of news these days about LGBTQIA+ people being left out of the Census. It’s true, the U.S. Census does not ask about ...
Model Merrick Shan Soleil wearing a binder following Glitter Grandpa’s template Glitter Grandpa is Pittsburgh’s friendly neighborhood queer and trans sewist looking to get you into ...
To preface, I want to state that in no way is this intended to invalidate those who choose to de-transition. There are multitudes of reasons ...
Ballroom culture has long been a fixture for queer people of color, with accounts dating back to the early 20th century. It inspired Madonna’s Vogue album ...
Imagine for a moment, that you’ve finally found a high-paying job with flexible hours. This job doesn’t mind that you’re gay, transgender, disabled, Black, Latinx, ...
One of the little known facts about Pittsburgh is that, despite Pennsylvania’s failure to protect its LGBTQIA+ residents with State laws, the City actually steps ...
Pittsburgh welcomes queer artist Joseph Cavalieri! His work features medieval stained glass techniques with an ironic pop twist in clever and irreverent combinations. He will be ...
Some people are just born bendy, literally and metaphorically. or so it seems. Biologically speaking some people have longer ligaments, the tough rope-like attachments that ...
I don’t know about you, but I’m stoked for Anthrocon this year! What’s Anthrocon? From the experts: Anthrocon is the world’s largest convention for those fascinated ...
I think that I have to start this article by making it very clear that I’m not taking sides. My motive here is not to ...
We made Pride Guide Part 1 and yinz came back with a whole host of other events to include. It’s good to see so many celebrations, marches ...
I’ve got my rainbow shorts purchased, a bottle of sunscreen, and a seemingly endless list of Pride events to attend this year. These are events ...
Imagine being a woman at at a local bar. You’re just hanging out with friends and having a nondescript-chill evening. You slip off to the ...
On May 12, 2018 Pittsburgh’s queer families and their allies gathered for a two-part event at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The fun began in the gallery with Drag ...
This is a continuation of the series “Invisible Neighborhood,” which explores the historical and present spaces in which Pittsburgh’s LGBTQIA+ communities live and thrive. Read ...
The Allies Ball was held this Saturday, April 21st, to help raise money for the Allies for Health + Wellbeing, a local organization dedicated to health ...
PLEASE TRY THIS AT HOME: A Collaborative Conference About Radical Bodily Autonomy and Technology is being held on March 11th at Bloomcraft, in the Glitterbox Theater. It ...
QueerPGH: Thank you so much for agreeing to do an interview with QueerPGH ahead of your speaking engagement at University of Pittsburgh as well as for the ...
We’ve all seen those movies. Someone is alone at night. They hear a noise, but just dismiss it as their imagination. And then, boom! The ...
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey challenges us to shine. It challenges those who aren’t queer to, well… queer it the hell up! In this spirit, City ...
Author’s note: I appreciate a community member who pointed out potential ambiguity here. The article has been edited to emphasize that we are talking about ...
Dubbed Cirrhosis of Liver, Sonia Maybottom is a 32 year old, 6 year veteran in the drag community, a member of the Manic Monday house cast ...
“I knew, right off the bat, that if I openly associated myself with these people, even though I was really into what they were doing, ...
Drag N’At will be doing performer profiles, focused on the local PGH drag scene. Some of our folks have left us for other states, but ...
Thursday the 14th of December was a terrible day. I am a film student and it was finals week, so I was sitting in a ...
I’d been sporting the same pack of Hanes boxers (you know, the kind you can only acquire after dodging around the gendered holiday stocking stuffers ...
Hey! Welcome to the frequent(ish) column here at QueerPGH highlighting our drag community! We are a collective of performers and supporters from all over the ...
What do your queer friends actually want for the holidays? I’ll tell ya. They want a local queer community that supports one another and works ...
Proud Haven is a non-profit that focuses on the needs of LGBTQIA+ youth experiencing homelessness. They got started unofficially in 2012, in response to a crisis ...
Art is inspirational for many, and permanently marking our bodies is a celebration of self and life. Let’s face it: many of us, myself included, ...
The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Pittsburgh recently changed its name to the Pittsburgh Equality Center. “We struggled with the potential for hurt feelings by ...
This past week, a white man in Las Vegas took a whole mess of automatic weapons and surpassed the Pulse Nightclub slaughter as the most ...
On Friday October 13th, Pittsburgh’s own LGBT film festival, Reel Q, will be kicking off downtown! From the perspective of 2017 it can be hard ...
This first installment of Sex Ed 101 will focus on dental dams! Sex Ed 101 is a series to help provide the sex ed you may have missed. There ...
Despite the fact that our state’s Acting Secretary of Health and Physician General, Rachel Levine, is an openly trans woman who practiced gender care, it may ...
Are college campuses doing enough for their transgender students? According to The Healthy Minds Study, a national survey of over 14,000 students on campuses across the ...
Despite varied stances on the American Military Industrial Complex within the LGBTQIA+ community, many experienced a thrill of outrage upon reading President Trump’s series of tweets on ...
Kids are gender-explorers, still developing their own sense of what gender is and how they want to express it. For queer kids, seeing and interacting ...
In a move designed to distract and alienate, President Trump announced via tweet at 6 a.m. on July 26th that he would be instituting a ...
Hey, queers! As promised, I’m back with something super special! It’s Part 2 of the Queer Pride Guide with 21 awesome events happening between Thursday, ...
When you hear the word “Pride,” many queer and trans people think of the official Pride March. For years in Pittsburgh that has meant the ...
This here is just an overview to help you understand the language used by NB (non-binary) people who have less popular pronouns than ‘he’ and ...
For the 5th year in a row, the FIERCE! queer burlesque festival will celebrate sexy queer bodies through creative dance, featuring hot performers diverse in age, ...
April 21, 2017 is the GLSEN Day Of Silence. For those of you who don’t know what the Day of Silence is, I’ll explain. GLSEN ...
Since 2010, Hot Metal Hardware (HMH) has been a staple of genderqueer entertainment in Pittsburgh, presenting all manner of drag and burlesque shows at locations around the ...
A little while ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Pastor Shanea Leonard of Judah Fellowship to discuss church hurt, intersectionality, community building outside the ...
I’ve spent the last seven years studying and practicing organizational psychology, a field that seeks to enhance the workplace from a people perspective. This might ...
“Burlesque is about feminism. Burlesque is about power. Burlesque is about women doing what they want and loving themselves.” What society thinks is sexy–who gets ...
Heya Sister 6P, Silicone or water-based? I can never decide. Thanks,Lou-b’d Dear Lou-b’d First of all.. A water-based sex toy may sound fun.. But the ...
Dear Costa,My girlfriend moved in with me and my dog, Apollo, about 9 months ago. She always got along with the dog but lately it ...