Last month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s crusade to prosecute the parents of transgender kids brought the national campaign targeting gender-affirming care to new lows. Now, it’s not the actions of one politician but the decision of a whole state legislature ...

Red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, violet… chartreuse? With Pride month comes many celebrations and marches in support of the LGBTQ Community and the many symbols and flags that have come to represent the varying communities that make up the ...

Updated May 11, 2022, at 6:45 pm Unless you reside under a rock, you’re probably well aware that paying attention to politics can be stressful. It seems like every day there is something new about which to be shocked and/or ...

We’re very into the extreme couture energy transgender actress Hari Nef (“Transparent”) has been bringing to her delightful and impeccably attired pop-ups on series like “And Just Like That…” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” So it seems like a no-brainer ...

Trivia Is a Drag: Golden Girls Monday, May 9th, 7:30pm-9:30pmBrewer’s Bar Head to Brewer’s Bar for their special trivia night – Golden Girls edition!  Join Lola Rose out on the lanai for some cheesecake and trivia about your favorite Florida ...

It’s still open to interpretation whether Moana is on the queer spectrum, but Auli’i Cravalho, who voiced the Disney princess, can assure you of one thing — she’s a proud bisexual. The 21-year-old actress portrays her first openly LGBTQ+ character ...

The annual Allies for Health + Wellbeing Ball and Free for All is honoring 11 local young people as its inaugural class of “Bright Young People.” This year’s Allies Ball and Free for All, designed by event architect Thommy Conroy ...

Nick Staples doesn’t want Pride on the Shore to be simply a musical festival, but a fully immersive experience. This is the first large-scale event he is spearheading as the producer for Imagination Entertainment. On June 3, he wants Stage ...

Congratulations to the Steel City Bowling League (SCBL) for completing their 41st season!  The SCBL is Pittsburgh’s second oldest sports organization.  The league was established in the fall of 1982 at the Monroe Bowl in Monroeville by members of the ...

This morning, after the shocking news of the United States Supreme Court’s intention to overturn Roe v Wade, NARAL Pro-Choice America announced their endorsement of two local candidates for US Congress. They endorsed State Representative Summer Lee (D) for Pennsylvania’s ...

Central Outreach Wellness Center has announced a collaboration with Pride on the Shore to offer free general admission to the festival in support of the Community and public health. Beginning today, Monday, May 2, 2022, people who get a free ...

For Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, collectively known as Sofi Tukker, it doesn’t need to be Pride for it to feel like a Pride show. The duo has been promoting and practicing the values of inclusivity and self-empowerment in their ...

Pride on the Shore announced a contest for the design of the official t-shirt for the Pride on the Shore 2022 festival in partnership with the Center for Organ Recovery and Education. The winner’s design will be featured on the ...

Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh announced their exploration of the formation of an expansion league for ultimate frisbee and two trial days of ultimate frisbee games. With neither kickball nor sand volleyball games scheduled for Sundays, June 12 and June 26, ultimate ...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has another superhero tie-in narrative coming to the Disney+ streaming network, and it’s called “Ironheart.” It’s based on a Marvel Comics character who debuted in 2016, a teenage genius inventor named Riri who creates an advanced ...

Best known for his stunning baton twirling at parades across the country, including at the Pittsburgh Pride parades, David “The Silver Twirler” Peters, of Monroeville, passed away Monday at his home in Monroeville’s Cedar Ridge. He was preceded in death ...

Pittsburgh Pride Group held a press conference at True T Studios this afternoon announcing Miss Money as the headline act at the FREE Pittsburgh Pride Revolution Festival. Taking place from June 2 – 5, 2022 throughout the city of Pittsburgh and featuring ...

Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Kickball hosted their seasonal friends and family games on Sunday, April 24. Music, pizza, and beverages were available during a beautiful, sunny day of 14 games. Central Outreach Wellness was on hand to support the league and ...

Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation partners with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott The Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation has now partnered with Eckert Seasmans Cherin & Mellott for aid in providing transgender, non-binary and gender expansive individuals with pro bono services, to ...

As YouTube, social media, and self-released music platform Bandcamp grew in popularity, musicians could create music and garner followings from their own bedrooms: hence “bedroom pop” was born, and so was the career of UK-born, 23-year-old singer/songwriter/producer Robin Skinner (he/they), ...

I get a lot of texts from Donald Trump these days. OK, not from him, but from his campaign. I got one today that asked me to take a survey. Sure! I love surveys.  The first question was about Disney ...

Loved it, hated it, hate-watched it, whatever you did when “And Just Like That…” dropped its magically post-COVID earnestness and fresh Balenciaga bags into your life, well, you’ll get to do it all over again when the series returns for ...

The Stonewall Alliance, the non-profit responsible for the Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh programs, is seeking a new Executive Director. View the full list of responsibilities and qualifications and apply below. Stonewall Alliance, Inc. is a Pittsburgh-based, volunteer-run, non-profit LGBTQ+ and Ally ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Tuesday afternoon the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed HB 972, a bill that bans transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ and women’s school sports. After nearly two hours of debate, the roll call vote was ...

The Mattress Factory has announced a new spring 2022 event series and the launch of an online finding aid to celebrate the work of Greer Lankton, a significant and underrecognized artist in the radical art scene of New York City’s East Village during ...

The Pittsburgh Pirates are teaming up with local LGBTQ organizations for their annual Pride night game on June 17. The Pride night game will be against the San Francisco Giants at 7:05 PM Friday, June 17. The first 2,000 fans ...

Alone in the desert, three men, wearing nothing but thongs, move in cat-cow stretches on a blanket for nearly two minutes. Tour cities are read in a faint tone that, as the vintage video progresses, grows weirder and more chilling, ...

Well, he signed it. Just like everyone expected. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. And not only did he sign it, but he signed it at Classical Preparatory School, a charter school in Florida, surrounded by ...

Over the past six weeks, Ukraine has become the focal point of international attention as it pushes back on Russian military aggression while enduring the hardships that war inflicts on combatants and civilians. In the images depicting the effects of ...

Presbyterian SeniorCare and partner Affirmative Investments have chosen a design for their proposed LGBTQ senior housing development in Oakland being called “Oakland Pride.” Rothschild Doyno Collaborative, a Strip District-based design firm, was chosen to create the design. The proposed design ...

A Muslim-raised, queer artist explores a tenuous connection with his mother through an ancient Greek text in Adil Mansoor’s Amm(i)gone. Mansoor said, “My mother found out I was gay on Google.” The playwright and performer had acquired a long-reaching internet presence. ...

There’s an important issue in the community and around the country that many of us don’t understand fully, and it involves members of our trans community participating in sports. It’s been so misreported in the mainstream media that even fellow ...

There still aren’t enough trans actors in Hollywood, but at least there’s Patti Harrison. Harrison is currently starring in the big blockbuster rom-com caper “The Lost City,” alongside Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, as the social media manager of Bullock’s ...

I’m writing this on the first day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nomination for the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman ever to serve as a Supreme Court ...

March 31 is the internationally recognized day of Transgender visibility. With the coordinated campaign of hate attacking our trans brothers and sisters, this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility is even more important. Join TransYouniting, Proud Haven, TransPride Pittsburgh, True T, ...

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania’s version of an anti-trans youth bill was advanced from the Pennsylvania House Education Committee. The bill that would ban trans youth from participating in school sports leagues from kindergarten through college now proceeds to the full Pennsylvania ...

Right now, in Ukraine, transgender people are forced to go without their prescribed hormones. “Pharmacies are out of stock of pretty much everything,” said Lenny Emson, executive director of KyivPride, a non-governmental organization in Ukraine’s capital city. Emson is bigender ...

A bill introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives by State Representative Barbara Gleim (R, Cumberland County) to ban trans youth from school sports teams is scheduled for a vote in the House Education Committee on Tuesday morning. The bill, ...

Transgender icon Eddie Izzard is currently shooting “Doctor Jekyll,” a modern retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and this new version will incorporate Izzard’s own trans identity. She’ll be playing ...

After a second hiatus from pulling the balls due to the omicron variant, OUTrageous Bingo announced the return of more games on April 23. Tickets for the April 23 OUTrageous Bingo held at Rodef Shalom are on sale now! OUTrageous ...

Pittsburgh’s First Lady of Drag, Kierra Darshell, is proud to present the 4th Miss Tri-State All-Star Newcomer (TSAS) Pageant on Sunday, March 27 at the Greer Cabaret Theater. This must-see pageant will feature drag queens from the tri-state area competing ...

As a woman, I know what it feels like to be invisible. As a Black woman that feeling is sometimes intensified. It gets juxtaposed with occasionally being the person everyone is looking at, but not really seeing. In a time of ...

What could Joe “Tiger King” Exotic and fictional genderqueer arthouse punk-rocker Hedwig Robinson possibly have in common? John Cameron Mitchell. And so, the Farrah Fawcett wig comes off the 58-year-old actor who created Hedwig and brought her Off-Broadway in 1998, ...

Updated: April 22, 2022 at 12:08 pm The Pittsburgh Pride Group, a consortium of LGBTQ+ Community organizations led by TransYouniting, announced its lineup of Pittsburgh Pride events for Pride month starting June 2, 2022. Too Hot for July! Thursday, June ...

Updated March 19, 2022, at 4:28 PM On March 4, 2022, the leaders of the LGBTQ communities across Pennsylvania endorsed Attorney General Josh Shapiro and State Representative Austin Davis for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, respectively. Representative Brian Sims, an openly ...

On January 14,  Alan Jones retired from Allies for Health + Wellbeing after 30 years of service. He was the longest-serving staff member.  So much has changed in the past few decades and Jones has seen it all.  Until September ...

Shepherd Wellness Community announced that they would be resuming in-person Friday dinners, which haven’t been held in over two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Friday dinners will resume on April 8, 2022. Read the full announcement from Shepherd Wellness ...