Cher tweets biopic news and we’re hanging on her every word When one follows Cher on Twitter, one becomes used to — let’s even say enveloped in — her personal style of distributing information and opinions. There are frequent emojis, ...
When I was a kid in the ’80s I saw an episode of the “Twilight Zone” called “To See the Invisible Man.” In a future society, people get a mark on their foreheads, kind of raised and fleshy, like a ...
May has nearly turned to June and that means that it’s Pride Season! Jim and Jason are talking all things Pride including debates about kink and nudity having representation at Pride, cops in Pride events, RuPaul’s All Stars Season 6, ...
Sunday, June 17, 1973, will always be remembered as the day that LGBTQ Pittsburgh “came out”. At 12 noon a crowd began to form in Market Square in Downtown, Pittsburgh. Marchers, signs, banners, loudspeakers all gathered. TV cameras and reporters ...
“Rainbows. Rainbows everywhere. Put a Rainbow on it!” That’s how I envision the marketing and products team meeting goes every year at Multi-National-Somewhat-Problematic-Corporation-X as June approaches. While it can be nice to see so much support for the LGBTQ Community ...
Leyna Bloom made a splash this year for being the first Black and Asian openly trans woman to be featured in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, out in July. But even before reaching that historical milestone, the 27-year-old Chicago ...
Ah, the power of a good face mask! Whether your skin is dry, oily, or somewhere in between, there are great options out there for you. I have super oily skin. In the mid 90’s I decided to add masking ...
Tennessee is on an anti-LGBTQ+ roll, y’all. You may remember that I wrote about how gay country music star T.J. Osborne was supposed to get honored by the state legislature via a resolution. But a Republican, Rep. Jeremy Faison, stepped ...
Dear Central, So, my boyfriend and I got together before the pandemic and we have been together ever since. I think this might last forever, and I wondered if I should stay on PrEP that I have been on since ...
After months, and weeks, and some days, and maybe what even feels like a few years, you FINALLY snagged a vaccine. All of the stress, the anxiety, and ultimately the sigh of relief that yes, life is beginning to return ...
After a year of what seems to have been a constant state of limbo, 2021 is finally beginning to look upwards. Here at Central Outreach Wellness Center, we are striving to continue with ever-changing health care practices that are game ...
I truly believe it was to our detriment that most of us grew up thinking that masturbation is something to be ashamed of. Think about it. We weren’t educated about it. It wasn’t spoken of and if it was, it ...
A gay man with cerebral palsy. You won’t find that kind of important representation just any time you flick on the TV, which is why Ryan O’Connell’s Netflix show “Special” has been uniquely refreshing and profoundly revolutionary. It began as ...
In a press conference at True T Studios in Bloomfield this morning and surrounded by LGBTQ+ community members, medical professionals, and state Representative Sara Innamorato, state Representative Dan Frankel, D-Allegheny, officially unveiled his “Protection of Patient Trust Act” Thursday. The ...
High rates of LGBTQ sexual assault, no centralized resources, and the only R1 University without a dedicated space for LGBTQ students; these are some of the many troubling conditions at the University of Pittsburgh detailed in a first-of-its-kind report by ...
In Erie County, Dr. Tyler Titus appears to have won the Democratic nomination for County Executive beating a crowded field in a tight race. Titus is the first Trans elected official in Pennsylvania as the Erie School Board president. “What ...
Updated May 20, 2021 The future of HIV treatment is already changing. In January, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new treatment called Cabenuva, which would get rid of daily pills and introduce a once-a-month injectable medication. Cabenuva is ...
With 45% of precincts reporting at 10:26 pm tonight, Mayor Peduto called State Representative Ed Gainey to concede the Democratic primary for Mayor of Pittsburgh. Ed Gainey will very likely become the first black Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh ...
“You finna take me home?” It’s a beautiful, sunny Saturday afternoon in Squirrel Hill, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh. I’m sitting with emerging author Brian Broome. In just a few days, Broome’s debut memoir, Punch Me Up To The Gods, will ...
Almodovar and Penelope Cruz reteam for ‘Parallel Mothers’ With his impeccably glamorous short film “The Human Voice” (starring the equally impeccable Tilda Swinton) finally streaming on HBO Max, Academy Award winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar is teaming up with one ...
A historic election is brewing in one of Philadelphia’s most iconic, and queer, districts. Deja Lynn Alvarez, an activist and Co-Founder of Home For Hope, launched her campaign earlier this month and announced her run for State Representative for the ...
The Hot Queer Summer Ball kicked off the start of Hot Vax Summer and the first weekend without a mandatory masking requirement last night at Brewer’s Hotel and Bar in lower Lawrenceville. Sponsored by Project Matters and Allies for Health ...
You know how they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity? And also how they say don’t feed the trolls? Well, in a convergence of the two I have discovered The Brothers Osborne, a country music duo who are, ...
The pandemic seems to have claimed another small, local business. The Shadyside bar Element appears to be officially closed for good. Element, formerly Spin Bartini, closed in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic first forced businesses across the country to ...
This story has its villains, its victims, its social relevance, some justice, and in retrospect, a somewhat painful ending. This story is more than a page out of history, and it needs to be preserved and never forgotten. Names have ...
The LGBTQ inclusive City of Pittsburgh Hate Crimes Law has passed City Council unanimously. Original article published April 24, 2021: An ordinance to be introduced to Pittsburgh City Council next week will create a city-wide Hate Crimes Law that includes ...
Lil Nas X or ABBA or maybe Diana Ross? What songs and artists scream PRIDE to you? QBurgh and WYEP are teaming up to set the sounds of Pittsburgh Pride this year and we want to know what songs you ...
The Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, which partnered with the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation locally and the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, has released the results of the Pennsylvania LGBTQ COVID-19 Vaccine Survey, which ...
Facebook, Twitter and all manner of social media have been abuzz with the question, “Is there a Pride this year?!” The short answers is YES. But. Pittsburgh Pride 2021 is definitely a lot different than it has been in the ...
Home is where the heart is, but sadly too many people are heartless when it comes to those who are homeless. Especially when those people are trans women of color. Ten years ago when Kayla Gore experienced homelessness and needed ...
I haven’t thought about Steve Bannon in a hot minute. Best minute of my life, now that I think about it. But all good things must come to an end. And so, Bannon is back in my newsfeed, specifically promoting ...
When R. G. Forrester, as his name would appear on the ballot but better known as Randy, announced his candidacy for Allegheny County Commissioner on the morning of March 5, 1979 Harvey Milk had already been assassinated the previous year. ...
If you follow pop culture, you would assume there are elections only every four years and then we’re done with all of that until the next quadrennial elections. You’d be wrong. There are vitally important elections every single year, twice ...
Are Alaska Thunderfuck’s filthy jokes about Jeffrey Epstein, “genderfluids,” labia and poop too much for our world on fire? Alaska, even though she has a song called “Anus,” thought maybe they were. She wasn’t sure if an assault joke in ...
May is blooming for you! There is so much to do and going on in May that you aren’t going to want to miss it! Wednesday, May 5th TransYouniting Online Canvass 6:30 – 7:15pm, online We are promoting the Trans ...
‘Furiosa’ hits the road with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth Sometimes, even now, the queerest icons are all subtext. Nothing could be clearer about Charlize Theron’s ferocious Furiosa in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and the character never once declares herself ...
TransYouniting held a protest and demonstration Sunday at Schenley Plaze in Oakland to bring attention to and speak out against the continuing epidemic of violence towards trans people and particularly trans people of color. 17 trans people have been killed ...
Today is the last day to register to vote in the 2021 Primary Election in Pennsylvania. The primary election will be held on May 18 with both in person and by-mail voting options available. The major elections on the ballot ...
A couple of blocks east from Manhattan’s Empire State Building in the neighborhood known as Murray Hill, 25-year-old Taiwan-born photographer Hsiang-Hsi Lu fires off a Grindr message. “He’s Taiwanese!” Lu remarks with a tinge of pleasant surprise about the 20-something ...
The Stonewall Alliance, the non-profit that oversees the Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh leagues, has established the “Play It Forward” fund to help offset registration costs for players and to make the Stonewall Sports Leagues accessible to more players. The fund will ...
Spring is in full swing and the podcast gets a little sporty with guest Aaron White from Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Kickball. Aaron, the commish, talks with us about his work to make the legendary season 12 of kickball the most ...
On March 20 [1977], a relatively unknown talent graced the stage of the Allegheny Starlite Ballroom and competed with 11 other ”drag” entertainers for the title of “Miss Pittsburgh,” a first for this city. The audience did the judging by ...
I was 19 years old and pregnant when I received my HIV diagnosis in 2006. “This is punishment,” I thought, just rewards for the survival sex I turned to on the streets of Minneapolis as a homeless, runaway teen. I ...
Congratulations, everyone! We did it! Anti-LGBTQ+ bias is over and done now that Caitlyn Jenner is running to be California’s next governor! If we’ve learned anything from these past four years, it’s that putting a completely unqualified ego-maniac in charge ...
Oh, how social media has changed things since I moved to Hollywood in 1996. Getting an actress ready for an event used to take two hours and afterwards you’d go home or out to dinner. The next morning you’d wait ...
Today, Pittsburgh City Councilperson Erika Strassburger and Councilman Bruce Kraus will introduce legislation allowing LGBTQIA+ businesses to specifically register with the City of Pittsburgh’s procurement platform. This will allow LGBTQIA+ businesses not only to self-identify, but to gain access to ...
Since 1973, Pittsburgh LGBTQ publications have served as a community resource connecting and building a community for queer Pittsburghers and preserving a history that is often overlooked. Many look back on these print publications with fond memories of how they ...
An ordinance to be introduced to Pittsburgh City Council next week will create a city-wide Hate Crimes Law that includes sexual orientation, gender identity and disability. The proposed legislation would add to existing State and Federal Hate Crimes laws that ...
Gary Van Horn of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and the long-time former head of the now-defunct Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh settled his charges of impersonating a public servant and forging the signature of a county sheriff on Friday. Van Horn took ...