“Be Gay [Do Crime]” hits the stage Friday, February 10th in the Funhouse at Mr. Smalls Theatre with shade, stunts, and shenanigans all for an 18 and over crowd. Hosted by Miss Demeanor and music by DJ Nick @ Nite, ...
I don’t have time or patience for conspiracy theorists. Especially not ones who use their convoluted logic to further a right-wing agenda, something we’ve all had a front row seat to lately. The 2020 election, clearly and definitively won by ...
This one went a little under the radar, and that’s to be expected from M. Night Shyamalan, whose twist-filled movies reward going in fresh, but his latest, “Knock at The Cabin,” is among 2023’s first queer-themed film releases, and worth ...
For MLK Day of Service, the Stonewall Alliance and Gay 4 Good Pittsburgh volunteered at the QMNTY Center on the North Side to sort donations, touch up painted walls, and decorate the new center. ...
G2H2 Pittsburgh held its first happy hour of 2023 at Sienna Mercato downtown on Friday. You can learn more about G2H2 Pittsburgh on their Facebook page. Photos by G Michael Beigay. ...
The Steel City Stonewall Democrats held their annual Snowball gala on Friday evening, this year with a masquerade theme at the Hosanna House. Four awards were given out to community members for their work advancing causes of the LGBTQ Community ...
Governor-Elect Shapiro announced the appointment of the first out member of his cabinet Monday with the designation of Neil Weaver to serve as Secretary of Administration. Neil Weaver, who currently serves as Acting Secretary at the Department of Community and ...
Happy New Year everybody! Except for people who made it their life’s goal to attack LGBTQ+ people. I hope your New Year sucks. 2022 was much better than the two years before it (I know, it’s a low bar). We ...
Glitz, glam and, oh, just the small matter of changing hearts and minds. That’s a tall order for anyone, and the basic setup of every episode of the HBO show “We’re Here.” But of course, once again in Season 3, ...
Allegheny County Council At-Large candidate Joanna Doven today announced via her campaign Twitter account the support of former Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh president Gary Van Horn. Earlier this week QBurgh raised questions about Doven for a history of posting anti-trans, ...
Wouldn’t it be nice if anytime you felt a bit low or bored or just need some advice, someone would just appear to you? Someone you can talk to. Someone who can make you laugh or entertain you in some ...
Updated January 8, 2023, at 6:20 AM. Update: Joanna Doven responded to her history of anti-trans, racist, and pro-Republican comments coming to light through her campaign Twitter account Saturday with a 25-tweet-long thread. Doven accused QBurgh and others of committing ...
Transitioning from one gender to another can be a laborious and labyrinthian process. Trusting professionals to help a person through their journey can be harrowing. It can literally and figuratively become a big, hairy deal. Jamie Ober, CPE and her ...
Daniel Craig is back onscreen in Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” and just in case you haven’t paid attention to the finer details of this sequel, his detective character Benoit Blanc is now openly gay. So let’s ...
At noon today in Harrisburg, La’Tasha Mayes (D – Morningside) was sworn in as State Representative for Pennsylvania State House District 24 which includes parts of the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of the Hill District, Oakland, Bloomfield, Morningside, Highland Park, East Liberty, ...
On Cole Escola’s Instagram page, the 36-year-old nonbinary comedian and actor describes themself as “One of Grindr’s Fresh Faces.” That’s true, of course, on and off gay social apps. Escola, who continues their ascension in film and TV, is known ...
With a New Year brings new hope. And we need it after three years of Covid, political madness, and hate. Finding hope brings up the old debate: is the glass half filled or half empty? I’d like to believe that ...
2022 was a mixture of great successes and many setbacks for the LGBTQ Community of Pittsburgh, the state, and nationwide. Politically and electorally LGBTQ candidates succeeded in making history while legislators attacked our community with book bans, “Don’t Say Gay” ...
In our recent analysis of the National Crime Victimization Survey, we found that the odds of being a violent hate crime victim for LGBTQ people was nine times greater than it was for cisgender and straight people from 2017 to 2019. There were ...
You know what the scariest thing about drag queen story hour is? The part where hooded men wearing body armor show up with assault rifles. That’s what happened at a holiday themed storytelling event featuring drag queens on Dec. 3 ...
This is Ben Aldridge’s moment, and that’s no spoiler alert. The Los Angeles Times already made that call in a recent profile of the 37-year-old English actor, writing that Aldridge is “on the cusp of stardom.” And so it seems, ...
What would the end of the year be without a look back at the best and worst of our community in 2022? Let’s make one thing clear: I am completely biased. With well over 40 years of community service, I’ve ...
Brewer’s Bar on Liberty Avenue is the oldest standing gay bar in Pittsburgh and, in 2022, they are continuing their long-standing tradition of serving Christmas dinner and distributing gifts to all who come through their doors this evening. Photos courtesy ...
The big news is, of course, that “Dear Evan Hansen” star Ben Platt and “The Good Doctor” star Noah Galvin, friends for years, then a couple, have gotten engaged, so congratulations to them. But the two are also helping to ...
The Pittsburgh Area Naturists (PAN) are dropping their drawers to go bowling, answer trivia questions, and sing Karaoke. They are doing everything they can in the buff in and out of Pittsburgh. The Naturist organization hosts monthly naked karaoke, called ...
2022 has been quite the doozy of a year, and for some of us, the holiday season can be incredibly hard. If inflation wasn’t enough, some of us just don’t have a safe space where we can run to during ...
When Brendan Fraser’s character Charlie first appears in director Darren Aronofsky’s new film “The Whale,” he is masturbating to gay porn. Shown first as an anonymous shape sitting on a couch, Charlie is circled by the camera tentatively, as if it’s ...
Novelist John Rechy wrote in the 1970’s, “To me, the drag queen is one of the main heroes (or heroines) of the gay world. The courage required for her merely to step out on the street in drag is perhaps ...
Rich Cummings is beginning research on a second documentary about the LGBTQ history of Pittsburgh. The working title for the film is “Disposable Lives” and the film will concern itself with murders in the Pittsburgh LGTBQ community. Cases that will ...
Note: An attorney for the Club Q shooting suspect in an initial statement identified the shooter as non-binary and used they/them pronouns. However, in all subsequent statements and filings, the attorney now uses “he/him” pronouns. There are a lot of ...
“What do you like about your body?” That’s typically one of the first questions that therapist, life coach, author, PrEP promoter, and longtime HIV activist Damon L. Jacobs asks his guests on his YouTube show, “Tub Talks With Damon L. ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins celebrated the LGBTQ+ Community with their third annual Pride game on Monday, December 12 at PPG Paints Arena. The game also served as a fundraiser for the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation and the You Can Play Project. ...
Updated December 12, 2022, at 7:40 AM President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law this afternoon at a ceremony at the White House. The bill, while notably missing the national requirement of the Obergefell Supreme Court decision, ...
A new queer-owned children’s bookstore is committed to providing books for everyone. No matter your sexuality, gender, race, or religion – the people at Stories Like Me will help you find a book that you relate to. Helen Campbell, the ...
Rick Allison has been pulling balls at OUTrageous Bingo for 25 years. The monthly institution that Allison helped to start with Alan Jones in 1997 has been supporting the Shepherd Wellness Community and the PGH Equality Center (then-known-as the Gay ...
In early 2022, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez made history as the first openly trans actor to win a Golden Globe, an award she earned for her role in “Pose.” Nearly a year later and she’s yet to properly celebrate that groundbreaking ...
The Pittsburgh Tigers, Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ hockey team, hosted an open skate and beginner-friendly scrimmage game at the Hunt Armory on Saturday in partnership with the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Pittsburgh Penguins Pride Night game is tomorrow, Monday, December 12 at 7:00 ...
State Representative Jessica Benham (D – South Side Slopes and Hill Top Neighborhoods) has been named as co-chair of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus. Benham and fellow co-chair State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta (D – Philadelphia) are both ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins will celebrate the LGBTQ+ community as they host their third annual Pride Game on Monday, December 12 at PPG Paints Arena at 7:00 PM. Penguins players will tape their sticks for pre-game warmups with rainbow Pride Tape, ...
The PGH Equality Center and the First United Methodist Church hosted a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening for the victims of the Club Q shooting in November and for all victims who have experienced the current raise in anti-LGBTQ+ hate and ...
Allies for Health + Wellbeing is seeking the next class of “Bright Young People” to be honored at its annual Allies Ball and Free For All, set for Friday, May 26, 2023. Introduced at the 2022 event, the Bright Young ...
The Renaissance City Choir held its annual holiday concert, billed as “Holiday Greetings & Gay Happy Meetings,” on Saturday at the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. The Renaissance City Choir is Western Pennsylvania’s only LQBTQIA+ choral group. You can connect with ...
You’ve been treated to Gabrielle Union setting it on fire in the recently released queer drama, “The Inspection.” Meanwhile, as the activist stepmom to her transgender child, she’s also become a super ally of the LGBTQ+ community. Now she and ...
Let’s take a trip in the way-back machine to “Saturday Night Live” in the late 1970s. Specifically to the recurring skit featuring The Coneheads, a family of aliens with giant bald heads shaped like, you guessed it, cones. Dan Aykroyd ...
Hosted by AIDS Free Pittsburgh, Allies for Health + Wellbeing, Central Outreach Wellness Center, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Pitt Men’s Study, QBurgh, Reel Q, and Shepherd Wellness Community hosted the World AIDS Day memorial service on December 1. ↓ More ...
Pennsylvania Governor-Elect Shapiro and Lieutenant Governor-Elect Davis this week announced their Inaugural Committee. Of those tapped to help plan the Governor’s inauguration are community members Michele Kessler, who is Secretary-Treasurer of UFCW Local 1776 in Philadelphia, and Jeff Freedman, co-creator ...
The brand new QMNTY Center (pronounced Q – munity) held its grand opening and ribbon cutting on December 1 at the new center on East Ohio Street in the North Side. The QMNTY Center is a partnership between Proud Haven ...
As always, you can find even more LGBTQ events on our community calendar. ...