Ugly Christmas Sweaters were everywhere at the Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Bowling league’s friends and family night of games at the AMF Noble Manor Lane last night. You can connect with and learn more about the Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Bowling League ...
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill designed to protect same-sex and interracial marriages. The vote was 61-36 with 12 Republicans joining all of the Senate Democrats in supporting its passage. “For millions of ...
When F. Scott Fitzgerald mused that there are no second acts in American life, state Rep. Brian Sims had not yet been born. As one of the first out, gay members of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, Democrat Sims represented Philadelphia’s 182nd District ...
Riele Downs, who for six years starred on the popular Nickelodeon series “Henry Danger,” is all grown up now and is headlining the supernatural teen comedy “Darby and the Dead.” She plays a teenager who can see dead people and ...
We’ve all been to a place like Club Q. An unassuming place tucked into a strip mall that doesn’t look like much from the outside but offers a safe haven for LGBTQ+ people and allies inside. A place where people ...
World AIDS Day 2022 will have a new location and new partners. The Pitt Men’s Study, in collaboration with Shepherd Wellness Community, Central Outreach Wellness Center, Allies for Health + Wellbeing, AIDS Free Pittsburgh, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, and QBurgh will ...
The “Classic Lily” tab on Lily Tomlin’s official website — noted as “the world’s only” — is, today, barely operational. It looks like it was created at the dawn of the internet and never updated. The reason for this might ...
The holidays are near, and it’s time to start thinking about gifts for your friends, family, and loved ones — including the furry ones. When shopping for your pet, it’s easy to grab treats and toys. However, this year, dog ...
Did you ever dream of being a princess when you were a kid? Of course you did. Well now is your chance to see the real royals in action with Disney Princess – The Concert at the Benedum Center on ...
TransYouniting hosted a Transgender Day of Remembrance service on Sunday at the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation. Honor our unknown dead, We love and honor you who have died that we do not know.Our Trans siblings whose names and faces remain ...
This story is developing. A mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub has left five dead and 18 injured. The shooting occurred around 11:50 pm at Club Q in Colorado Springs on Academy Boulevard, an LGBTQ nightclub. The shooter, ...
Originally published by the Pittsburgh Independent. Pittsburgh’s pop art prince is off to Al-’Ula. The Royal Commission for Al-‘Ula and Arts AlUla this week announced Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum will bring “Fame: Andy Warhol in AlUla” to the Maraya art gallery for ...
The Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) is piloting an at-home chlamydia and gonorrhea testing program to determine the value of more accessible at-home STD testing for residents, if added to the department’s service offerings. Starting November 9, at-home tests became ...
As a young gay man, I always felt that if you were gay, you could only live in two cities: Los Angeles or New York City. No questions asked, it was as simple as that. You had to endure the ...
Urgent, timely, crucial. As we find ourselves thrust into the post-Roe era, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June to overturn the constitutional right to abortion established by the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling, it’s impossible not to use ...
G2H2 held their November happy hour at Brewer’s on Friday, November 11. You can connect with G2H2 on their Facebook page. Photos by G. Michael Beigay. ...
In June 2021, Rep. Dan Frankel, (D-Allegheny), introduced House Bill 300, known as the Fairness Act. With 75 cosponsors, the bill called for amending the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act to include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity in order ...
In writer-director Todd Field’s latest film, “Tár,” there’s a sense of intoxication in play, an air of fascination in the treatment of his leading character as a kind of monument — albeit one shadowed with foreboding. The film introduces Cate ...
There might not have been a red wave in the midterms, but there certainly was a rainbow wave. There are so many takeaways from the midterms on what drove the result. Mainstream media is fixated on how poorly Republicans did, ...
Dan Levy’s feature directorial debut has a title, a cast, and a home at Netflix. The “Schitt’s Creek” Emmy winner has written “Good Grief” and will direct it for the streaming service as well as star, alongside “Loving” Oscar nominee ...
Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Kickball held their end-of-season, tournament-style playoffs on Sunday to close out the Fall 2022 season of kickball. “100% That Pitch” took home the championship. You can connect with Stonewall Spots Pittsburgh and all of their leagues on ...
Pittsburgh made history again by electing Summer Lee to Congress to represent Pennsylvania’s 12 Congressional District, which includes all of the City of Pittsburgh and most of southeastern Allegheny County. Lee is the first Black congresswoman elected from Pennsylvania. In ...
Pittsburgh-based LGBTQ+ recording duo SUPA’ NxC has released their newest studio single “CHEEKY”. “While it’s important to have a support system that helps you see and appreciate yourself for everything you are, you must [also] have music that affirms that… ‘CHEEKY’ is ...
It’s time to celebrate Harvest Friendsgiving with Hugh Lane! The Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation is gearing up for the upcoming holiday season with their annual Rainbow Holiday Bag distribution and #HolidaysWithHugh November programming. For the third year, they will be ...
The quote “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minute,” is synonymous with Andy Warhol and his legions of camp-followers and pop-art fanatics. Warhol was obsessed with the idea of celebrity culture, with images of them running on ...
If you’ve been driving around Western Pennsylvania lately you might have heard some crazy radio advertisements spouting misinformation and hate about trans kids and gender-affirming care. It’s all a lie, but it’s one that is gaining traction across the country. ...
Fashion is not usually the first image that comes to mind for those thinking of Pittsburgh. We think bridges, the three rivers, sports teams – for the fashion sense, we think of acid wash jeans and sports paraphernalia, especially Steelers ...
Josh Shapiro has run what has been one of the most flawless campaigns in the history of Pennsylvania politics, one that has been on point with the issues most important to all Pennsylvanians. He has focused on preserving women’s right ...
Allies for Health + Wellbeing recently welcomed Dr. Yijia Li (he/him) to their health services team. Dr. Li will be seeing patients part-time in the Allies clinic. “I did my research back in China on HIV and hepatitis B,” said ...
Things are bustling at both locations of the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation. On a Wednesday afternoon in late October, Sarah Rosso, E.D., a National expert on LGBTQ Child Welfare, was shuttling from the new office of the Hugh Lane Wellness ...
All this talk of authentic representation and, finally, we’re seeing it. In fact, we’re seeing a lot of it in the extremely dramatic new Fox soap-esque series “Monarch.” Here, Gossip frontwoman Beth Ditto, who is proudly fat and queer (and ...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve been inundated with TV ads, those terrible radio ads, Youtube ads, and text messages… please let the text messages stop… you know there is an election on Tuesday, November 8. LGBTQ people ...
The Monster Ball rocked Stage AE on the North Side on Saturday with spooktacular Halloween-inspired performances by local royalty Leia Way LeStat, Akasha L. Van-Cartier, Dixie Surewood, Indi Skies, and Luna Skye and headlining performances by RuPaul’s Drag Race stars ...
We’ve been longing for this moment: John Waters is going to direct a new film for Village Roadshow Pictures. After 2004’s “A Dirty Shame,” we hoped he’d make his long-gestating Christmas movie, “Fruitcake,” that he’d spoken about from time to ...
Hosted at the Manos Gallery in Tarentum, the Queer Family Planning Project held an art auction benefiting LGBTQIA+ folks on their journey to parenthood. The Manos Gallery and Trace Brewing sponsored the auction. The Queer Family Planning Project is a ...
When the NFL’s 2022 season began, just one player, Carl Nassib, identified openly as gay. An outside linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Nassib came out in a video posted to his Instagram account in June 2021, making him the ...
Shepherd Wellness Community commemorated 35 years of service to the HIV+ community last week. In the summer of 1987, four gay men living with AIDS met with Father Lynn Edwards, an Episcopal priest; Bill Brandon, a physician; and Cynthia Klemanski, ...
In the United States, everybody knows that you don’t mess with Texas. That’s because you don’t have to. Texas will undoubtedly mess with you. Honestly, you could just be someone who needs, say, electricity on a regular and reliable basis ...
The Queer Scouts climbed at ASCEND South Side last night. The Queer Scouts is an LGBTQ+ Ascend climbing club, with the goal of creating connection and a safer and more inclusive outdoor sport community. Just look for their Queer Scout mascot, ...
The first thing you should know is that Girl God is hilarious. The second thing you should know is that the tickets for their show at Bottlerocket Social Hall on November 12 are selling faster than quarter condoms in a ...
Think back to your favorite film’s as a child – mainly, those classic Disney films, where Princes and Princesses found each other through true love, prosperity growing throughout the lands and the good eventually winning against evil. Sounds dull, right? ...
Trevor Noah, longtime host of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” says he will leave the show after seven years, opening up an opportunity for a fresh voice to fill that influential role. In a tumultuous political climate where LGBTQ+ ...
According to a study by UCLA’s Williams Institute, 21 percent of LGBTQ people are not registered to vote, a higher percentage than non-LGBTQ people (17 percent). With that in mind, Philadelphia LGBTQ leaders and organizations are working hard to disseminate information and ...
G2H2 Pittsburgh held their October happy hour at Blue Sky Kitchen and Bar in East Liberty. You can connect with G2H2 Pittsburgh on their Facebook page. Photos by G Michael Beigay. ...
A federal judge last month affirmed the legal protections of gender non-conforming workers and workers perceived to be LGBT in Pennsylvania. On Sept. 29, in a 56-page ruling, U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone allowed the lawsuit of Ryan W. ...
It’s been 300 years. Now the witches are back! A very special Sunday drag brunch at 5801 Video Lounge celebrated the original Hocus Pocus movie that has grown to be beloved by the LGBTQ+ Community. Featuring Akasha L. VanCartier as ...
Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Kickball is seeking nominations for a new league commissioner for seasons 2023 and 2024. Both self-nominations and peer nominations are welcome. Applicants should have previous participation in Stonewall Kickball or equivalent and justified experience with the sport and availability ...
5801 Video Lounge held a charity chili cook-off last weekend. Nine local LGBTQ+ non-profits participated, including Allies for Health + Wellbeing, Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation, Proud Haven, Shepherd Wellness Community, the Steel City Pups, Steel City Softball League, Stonewall Bowling, ...
“Not all gay people are nice,” says Bobby Leiber, played by Billy Eichner as the lead character in “Bros,” the new Judd Apatow-produced feature which Eichner also co-wrote and executive produced. As one of Bobby’s many corrective, prescriptive statements, the ...
Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation held their second annual Fall Fest on Saturday for LGBTQ+ youth, families, and seniors. The event included a cookout, drag story time with Akasha L. Van-Cartier, yard games, pumpkin painting, tie-dying, and s’more roasting. You can ...