On Friday, January 3, 2025, Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ community gathered in full force to celebrate local drag sensation Lydia B. Kollins’ debut on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17. The evening kicked off with a packed viewing party at 5801 Video Lounge, ...
On Friday and Saturday, the Handmade Arcade Holiday Market took place at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. QBurgh was proud to sponsor the event once again. Here are some of our favorite performers, makers, and vendors from this year’s ...
Luna Skye was crowned Miss P Town 2025 on Sunday night, facing off against some of Pittsburgh’s fiercest drag queens. Here’s how it all went down: Photos by Ava Grace. ...
Another Party hosted RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni Kelly Mantle (season six) and Nicole Paige Brooks (season two) at P Town Bar on Friday night. Indica’s monthly party also featured Izzy Uncut, Lydia Kollins, Kat De Lac, Joe My Gosh, Belair ...
On Friday, Stay Gold Books in Regent Square hosted a reading, discussion, and remembrance for Intersex Day of Solidarity with author Alicia Roth Weigel and local “intersex, queer, trauma-informed somatic space holder” Lyss Ball. Photos by Ava Grace. ...
5801 Video Lounge’s annual Halloween spectacular, Nightmare on Hellsworth, returned on Saturday with an Addams Family-themed show featuring the Boulet Brothers’ Supermonster Landon Cider. Photos by Ava Grace. ...
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 winner Symone joined Another Party Pittsburgh for a ruckus night at P Town on Friday. Indica hosted the event, which featured performances by Serena Tea, Evon Dior Michelle, and Kardi Redd Diamond. Cover guy Jaxa ...
Pittsburgh’s Chrissy Costa hosted a night of laughs with a comedy show at Love, Katie Distilling in Sharpsburg on Friday night. Featuring standup routines by Blair Grillz, Jon Huff, Samantha Bentley, and Jeff Fieldhouse. ...
Another Party hosted Xunami Muse of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 at P Town on Friday for Indica’s birthday celebration. The evening also featured stunning performances by Mariyea, Nicky Monet, Kardi Redd Diamond, Akasha L Van-Cartier, and many more. Follow ...
Updated at 11:40 AM on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. The Steel City Softball League held its annual amateur drag pageant on Saturday at Mr. Smalls Funhouse in Millale and crowned new Steel City Softball Royalty. Catty Wampus and Max Starvinia ...
Pittsburgh’s Joe King hosted his monthly Match Gayme show — this time with a “Death Becomes Her” twist — last night at City Winery Pittsburgh in the Strip District. Featuring Micah Micah, Kali Coutour, Shari Turner, Molly Belle Cummings, and ...
The Steel City Stonewall Democrats hosted a watch party at the Blue Moon in Lawrenceville for the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention as Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the ...
Crush Hour held their monthly happy hour Friday at Velum Fermentation. Crush Hour is a monthly happy hour for Pittsburgh’s queer ladies and femmes. Find out more about Crush Hour on their Facebook page and Instagram. ...
On Saturday, community members, family, and friends gathered to remember the life of Pauly Likens, a 14-year-old trans girl from Sharon, Pennsylvania, who was brutally murdered last month. Her remains were found scattered around a park lake an hour north ...
To close out Pride month, this Sunday featured Dormont Pride, Wilkinsburg Pride, and for the first time Forest Hills Pride. Forest Hills Mayor Frank Porko issued a proclamation declaring June 30 Pride Day in Forest Hills. Dormont Pride Wilkinsburg Pride ...
It was a jam-packed weekend to wrap up Pride month, here’s what happened on Saturday! Harold’s Haunt Queer Prom QBurgh was proud to sponsor 15 tickets to Queer Prom so that everyone could attend regardless of their ability to purchase ...
As June marches on, Pride celebrations across the region keep coming in different shapes, sizes, and flavors! 2nd Annual Vandergrift Pride in the Park Featuring local and Pittsburgh-based bands, the Junior Chamber of Commerce Players, flash tattoos by Iron Element, ...
It was another packed weekend of Pride events in all parts of the region. Check out some photos from Millvale Pride, Pride on Penn at Bakery Square, and Pride on Bigham Street in Mt. Washington. Millvale Pride Pride on Penn ...
On Thursday, Fox Chapel Pride in the Park held their annual Pride festivities at Allegheny RiverTrail Park. The family-focused, youth-centered gathering featured over 15 local vendors, Drag Story Hour with Akasha L. Van Cartier, line dancing with 412Step, and much ...
During Pride weekend, 5801 Video Lounge in Shadyside hosted a slew of events through out the weekend. They closed out the whirlwind weekend with a block party featuring HUNY and Insta-famous DJ Adam Wright (@adamusic_). ...
Pittsburgh Pride weekend 2024 kicked off last Thursday with Too Hot for July presented by AIDS Free Pittsburgh and True T Pittsburgh featuring Alex Newell! ...
The Pittsburgh Pride season kicked off on Sunday with the return of a long-standing, LGBTQ Pittsburgh tradition, the Bigger Gayer Picnic! With cookout food generously provided by Giant Eagle, hundreds gathered for a day in the sun at Allegheny Commons ...
On Friday evening, Allies for Health + Wellbeing hosted their annual Free for All, their largest fundraising event for the year, at the Children’s Museum on the North Side. Dr. Daphne Curges was honored with the 2024 Kerry Stoner Award. ...
Crush Hour, a monthly happy hour troupe for Pittsburgh’s queer ladies and non-binary people, hosted their first-ever formal dance on Saturday night at the Franklin on Penn — a new queer-managed wedding and event venue in the Strip. It was ...
Krystal Versace, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season 3 graced the Pittsburgh stage on Friday night, courtesy of S&S Productions. ...
Thursday evening, the Three Rivers Business Alliance hosted a Q&A session with Pittsburgh Police Chief Larry Scirotto. Chief Scirotto is the first out Pittsburgh Police Chief. Photos by G. Michael Beigay. ...
The Steel City Stonewall Democrats held their 2024 Primary Endorsement meeting this past weekend at Hotel Indigo in East Liberty. With members, elected officials, and candidates seeking the group’s approval in attendance, the group announced the endorsement of the following ...
The Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation held their annual “Holidays with Hugh” happy hour foundraiser at 5801 Video Lounge on Thursday. The fundraiser helps raise funds for the other “Holidays with Hugh” programs that provide holiday meals for LGBTQ and HIV-positive ...
G2H2 held their monthly happy hour at 5801 Video Lounge in Shadyside to celebrate the holiday season on 5801’s festive back deck. Photos by G. Michael Beigay. ...
The weather was dreary but the show went on inside 5801 Video Lounge on Saturday night for the annual Nightmare on Hellsworth Halloween party with special guest performance by Nina West from season 11 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Also performing ...
Mara Rago‘s “Carla” documentary premiered at the Reel Q Pittsburgh LGBTQ Film Festival to a sold-out crowd at the Warhol Museum Friday evening. The documentary depicts the life of Carla Beck, a Pittsburgh trans woman. Beck transitioned late in life, ...
5801 hosted their annual Chili Cook-off on Saturday. The culinary competition featured and benefitted nine local LGBTQ+ organizations. The competitors were: Allies for Health + Wellbeing, Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation, Proud Haven, Trans Youniting, Shepherd Wellness Community, Steel City Softball ...
QBurgh was the proud media sponsor of the 2023 Pittsburgh Recovery Walk this weekend. The Pittsburgh Recovery Walk celebrates all roads to recovery, which we know are as varied as the actual roads in Pittsburgh. Some are bumpy, some are ...
What a fun September G2H2 at Helltown Taproom in the Strip District. Thanks to our host and all who attended. Check out who were the angels and who were the devils. Keep up with all of G2H2’s happy hours on ...
Hosted by HRT Solutions, Redtree Web Design, and the Three Rivers Business Alliance, Equality Careers celebrated its launch with a grand opening ribbon cutting at COhatch in the Southside Works on Thursday. Equality Careers is an inclusive job board that ...
Proud Haven celebrated their tenth anniversary with a gala at Pittsburgh’s Grand Hall at the Priory on the Northside hosted by SisterPetra Pyper Pictapekhov with performances by Lys Scott, Joey Young, and DJ Kaydence McQueen. Proud Haven‘s mission is to ...
Hosted by Leatherman of Color 2020 and Handler Bane, a Leather Night leather social and dance party was held Friday at Club Pittsburgh featuring DJs Zanderwoods (Dog Noise) and Molly Goblin. The social raised money for TransYouniting and the Trevor ...
Crush Hour, the queer ladies and non-binary people happy hour, held their monthly event at Necromancer Brewing on Friday. Necromancer Brewing collaborated with Crush Hour on a custom-brewed ale. The Crush Hour Strawberry Blonde is a blonde ale with strawberry ...
This past weekend was packed with even more Pride events! Millvale Pride Crafton Pride State Representative Jessica Benham’s Pride Brunch ...
Dormont Arts and the LGBTQ Community Committee of the Dormont CDC held their second annual Dormont Spark/Pride this weekend along Potomac Avenue in Dormont. Moonlit Burgers was the title sponsor of the event. With performances by Feralcat & the Wild, ...
Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Kickball concluded their summer season this past weekend. Congratulations to competitive champions 100% That Pitch and recreational champions Field of Queens. ...
Lebo Pride held their second annual Pride in Mt. Lebanon this past Saturday in Mt. Lebanon Park featuring yoga, musical performances including the Renaissance City Choir, drag story time with Akasha L. Van-Cartier, and more. Photos by Amanda Cetorelli. ...
It was the second annual Washington PA Pride this past weekend and it was even bigger than last year! ...
Stonewall Kickball Pittsburgh held its inaugural paw pageant hosted by Akasha L. Van Cartier. League members’ dogs walked the red carpet runway for four prizes. The event raised a total donation of $1,500 for FurKid Rescue. Kai’s Creations was also ...
It was a sold-out drag brunch at Voodoo Brewery Homestead. Hosted by Danielle Attme and featuring Alora Chateaux, Eden Ivy, Glitter Devil, Lady Inferno, and Jade Uzu Maki. Earlier in the week the scheduled drag show made waves across social ...
iCandy Pittsburgh hosted a Disco Revolution party at P Town during Pittsburgh Pride weekend featuring DANCING QUEEN, Pittsburgh’s hottest 70’s and 80’s disco, funk and dance band out on the P Town breezeway. Photos by Mara Rago. ...
5801 Video Lounge in Shadyside hosted a Pride street festival Sunday evening to close out Pride weekend featuring Jan Sport of RuPaul’s Drag Race and All-Stars. Hosted by Leia Way LeStat and featuring performances by Dixie Surewood, Venus Doom, Scarlet ...
Sunday’s Pittsburgh Pride festivities moved to Bloomfield for a Pride street festival. ...
On Saturday festivities continued in Allegheny Commons Park West with tens of thousands already at the Pittsburgh Pride Festival when the Pittsburgh Pride Parade arrived bringing tens of thousands more. Photos by G Michael Beigay. ...