On Saturday during Pittsburgh Leather Pride weekend, a new Mr. Pittsburgh Leather Bear and the first-ever Iron City Pup were crowned. Mr. Pittsburgh Leather Bear 2021 is Max and Iron City Pup 2021 is Chaser. After missing a year due ...
OUTrageous Bingo is back in full force after a year and a half hiatus. This longtime Pittsburgh tradition returned again for its second month on Saturday evening. It was great to see old faces mixed in with a lot of new ...
On the heels of his Oscar-nominated role as Jack Hock in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” alongside Melissa McCarthy, actor Richard E. Grant takes on another aging gay man who embodies AIDS-era homosexuality. This time, though, the British actor’s character, ...
Do you remember that scene in “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” when Pee-wee Herman and Francis, in an argument about Pee-wee’s bike, end up insulting each other and then shouting, “I know you are, but what am I?” over and over? That’s ...
Hey QBurgh’rs Marlee Matlin’s new flick CODA is getting so much buzz but what I’ve decided we really want to know is: Marlee, when did you start wearing makeup? Were you gunning for glam or just meh? Marlee Matlin: I ...
Billy Porter and Gabrielle Union get ‘Real’ Billy Porter and Gabrielle Union are about to bring you a queer teen high school comedy. The “Pose” star recently finished directing his first feature film – the forthcoming “What If?” – and ...
According to the Pittsburgh City Paper, last year the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh submitted two applications to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: one for “Pittsburgh Pride” and another for “Pittsburgh Pridefest.” What’s odd is that these applications were filed ...
Aretha Franklin’s journey to self-discovery is seen through the lens of openly lesbian screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson in “Respect,” the biopic starring Jennifer Hudson as Detroit’s own Queen of Soul. In director Liesl Tommy’s film, Wilson focuses on Franklin’s tumultuous ...
There are two things I need to say right up front. One, getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a safe and effective way to prevent yourself and others from getting really sick and possibly dying. Two, no good conversation ever starts ...
HIV stigma has long been acknowledged for alienating and pushing people living with HIV (PLWH) out of care retention. As Donja R. Love, the award-winning, Afro-Queer playwright who is living with HIV, recently revealed to TheBody in an interview about ...
Another rotten week in paradise with ‘The White Lotus’ We watched “The White Lotus.” You watched “The White Lotus.” All queers watched “The White Lotus.” (Note: we realize this is false, but we’re trying to make it a thing.) And ...
Many parents want to ensure that their kids are in classrooms where they and their families are respected and embraced. However, as a psychologist and researcher who has studied LGBTQ parents’ relationships with schools for over a decade, I have found that LGBTQ parents ...
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! The Pfizer vaccine has been officially FDA approved. Finally, those completely reasonable and rational people who’ve been refusing to get the shot until it was upgraded from “emergency use authorization” to “full ...
C.J. Mitchell spent the first twenty years of his life in what he describes as an “amazing musical boot camp,” performing at church in Bluefield, West Virginia. Playing several instruments, singing different parts, writing songs for the choir, and even ...
I read Steven Rowley’s third novel “The Guncle” with my 8-year-old niece in mind. After all, his book makes a case for how parenting extends beyond a child’s actual parents. Uncles, aunts, friends, grandma, grandpa, babysitters: “It takes a village,” ...
The Silk Worm Zine is a project of Project Silk. Project Silk is an HIV prevention program for LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults of color. They service ages 13-29 and provide free and confidential testing for HIV and STI’s, linkages to ...
Pittsburgh leather royalty join us on the podcast this month! David Spivey, current reigning Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather and Mr. Pittsburgh Leather Fetish, and Josh Englert, current reigning Mr. Pittsburgh Leather Bear, talk to us about what their reigns have been ...
Despite a brief thunderstorm, Pittsburgh Black Pride’s Community BBQ and Central Outreach Wellness Center’s Summer Block Party both went on as scheduled on Saturday to help the Pittsburgh LGBTQ Community close out the summer of ’21. Pittsburgh Black Pride Community ...
In 1981, a few activists sounded the alarm on a looming health catastrophe, but most people looked the other way — just as they did in 2020. Something was killing us gay men in 1981 and no one knew what ...
I just returned from a cross-country trek with my wife and son and I am happy to report that in much of the country, COVID-19 is over and only freaky liberals wear masks. Fun! Seriously, it was often just the ...
On gay dating apps like Grindr, many users have profiles that contain phrases like “I don’t date Black men,” or that claim they are “not attracted to Latinos.” Other times they’ll list races acceptable to them: “White/Asian/Latino only.” This language ...
On Friday, the Steel City Stonewall Democrats, State Senator Lyndsey Williams, the LGBTQ Victory Fund, and a cadre of local political boosters hosted a reception in support of Erie County Executive candidate Tyler Titus at 5801 in Shadyside. Dr. Tyler ...
Central Outreach Wellness Center introduced a new service to continually meet patients where they are with HepCMyWay.com. Pennsylvania and Ohio residents can now access in-home treatment to cure their Hepatitis C. If you ever tested positive for Hep C and ...
Whether it is your first time coming to university in Pittsburgh or you are entering your final year of study, QBurgh is here to tell you how to get more involved in the local queer community. Each university in Pittsburgh ...
German character actor Udo Kier is on camera holding old prints of press photos from his previous films over his face like a Halloween mask. He jokes that if a journalist dare ask a terrible question that he considers daft, ...
Pride Month in Pittsburgh is one of the most important times for the city’s LGBTQ+ community, a time to show strength in the importance of love and unity throughout the region. 2021 was an especially big year for Pride, with ...
Last week, the United States Census Bureau dropped its long-awaited (and delayed) redistricting and reapportionment data from the 2020 Census count. Just a day before the Census data drop, the bureau debuted the latest Household Pulse Survey (HPS), a survey used ...
What an incredibly stupid time to be alive. Every day Republicans and their network, Fox, are telling people NOT to get vaccinated. That COVID-19 is either a hoax or just not a big deal. That being required to wear a ...
What did the first run of “The L Word” get wrong? It’s a question that was posed to veteran stars Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig on Zoom one recent afternoon. “Haircuts!” Hailey, 50, exclaims. “First season outfits, sunglasses,” ...
‘The Peripheral’ moves into the cyberfuture with Alexandra Billings We are huge fans of trans actor Alexandra Billings. She’s the reason we didn’t bail on “The Conners.” And it’s exciting to watch a performer come into their own on screen, ...
I was once told by a date that I celebrate Pride wrong. He said that Pride was supposed to be drag queens, drinking, and going out dancing at the “definitely not racist” gay bar. Yet, here I was protesting and ...
It’s no secret that LGBTQ+ people face a range of financial challenges that heterosexual people simply don’t need to contend with. Less discussed are the effects of financial discrimination on building LGBTQ+ generational wealth. The stereotypical view of a wealthy ...
If you’ve traveled down Ellsworth Ave. in Shadyside over the last 35 years, you’ve undoubtedly passed Eons Fashion Antique. Eons Fashion Antique is a charming vintage mecca with over one hundred years of fashion nestled in an artistic utopia amid ...
Raging hormones barely explain the behavior of Sequin, a gay 16-year-old high school student who wears a shirt embossed with glittery discs while hooking up with anonymous guys in the director Samuel Van Grivsen’s audacious, erotic and suspenseful feature debut, ...
Y’all, people are being very mean to Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) on the internet. Again. I mean, what does this guy have to do to get some respect around here? On July 14, Graham publicly took a brave and ...
It really has been a hot vaxx summer! So much is going on in the community and so many folks are doing amazing things. Loni Alexander joins us as our guest this month and we discuss the importance of queer ...
Harry Styles is ‘My Policeman’ Legendary gay novelist E.M. Forster penned classics like “Maurice,” “Howards’ End” and “A Room with a View,” but he had as complicated a personal life as any queer person in the middle of the 20th ...
Back in 2004, two friends from Pittsburgh, Darin Smith and Ralph Morrow, were enjoying a few drinks at a bar in Tampa. Ralph was working for USAir at the time and layoffs were on the horizon. Darin was an engineer ...
This may come as a surprise to many of you, but there is a lot of porn on the internet. More porn than right-wing evangelical sites trying to sell you buckets of survivalist food or weird supplements, even. Yet, it ...
Mara Rago, QBurgh’s very own resident photographer, was featured at an exhibition in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware during Pride month. For the past two years, Rago has been featured by the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center. Philip Livingston, a resident of Rehoboth ...
July — the hot spot center of summer. How’s your suncare going? It’s essential! Here are three sunscreens that may be flying under your radar. Check them out and soon you’ll wanna pop these newbies in your beach bag! For ...
Romantic partners are becoming more and more like potato chips these days: a lot of people find it difficult to have just one. …I’ll just see myself out… But seriously, though, monogamy really isn’t the only norm anymore, especially in ...
Indi Skies, a Pittsburgher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, is competing this weekend at the National Showgirl Pageant in Kissimmee, Florida. Skies has always been someone who has ventured into gender play. She recounts that at a young age ...
Phil Graziadei, the openly gay screenwriter behind Netflix’s new queer-inclusive film trilogy based on spook master R.L. Stine’s classic “Fear Street” series, remembers those teen horror-fiction books well. And he definitely remembers them not being very gay. Published first in ...
Updated July 14, 2021 at 8:17 PM Pittsburgh native C. Lee Hill, Jr. is the current reigning “Leatherman of Color”. Hill won the competition in 2020 and due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, he remains the titleholder. The “Leatherman of ...
Pride Month may be over but we’re going to keep on celebrating Queen Latifah, who recently went public about her partner Eboni Nichols in a BET Awards speech. She may have been getting the Lifetime Achievement Award that night, but ...
United Highlands, a new organization run by young adults, brought Pride festivities back to Johnstown this weekend. While not the first Pride held in Johnstown, it was the first hosted in several years and the first planned by the new ...
In June, as corporations donned rainbow merchandise and updated their logos for Pride, the Pennsylvania Youth Congress was sending a message: companies who celebrate Pride month must do more to help pass LGBTQ nondiscrimination legislation in Harrisburg, and if they don’t they ...
“Pride month is over,” Christian evangelist Franklin Graham declared on Facebook. You hear that, everybody? Those rainbow flags should all be taken down and boxed up in the basement next to that giant, light-up, inflatable Santa and those ice skates ...
UPDATE 7/11/21 3:22 PM: The Homecoming game has been postponed until September during the league playoffs. The Steel City Softball League has announced that in celebration of their 40th season an inaugural Homecoming Game will be held on Saturday, July ...