One of the oldest news publications of its kind is making history once again as it propels into the 21st century with a revolutionary multimedia experience. Pittsburgh’s Out, now in its 39th year of publication, has entered the world of broadcast ...
Ever since Brooklyn author Frank Anthony Polito read The Mysteries of Pittsburgh in college, he has been enamored with the Steel City. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon is a coming-of-age story set here in the early 1980s. It relates the story ...
I can’t give a fair appraisal of Milk, especially its cinematography, because I watched the whole movie through teary eyes. I moved to San Francisco two months after Harvey Milk’s murder, and if I didn’t live through the events shown in ...
Amber’s pissed! As sales of albums plummet annually and potential buyers download CDs illegally, the traditional music industry is reeling. The number of radio stations playing high-energy dance music has dwindled to nearly zip. And international singer/songwriter Amber’s mad ...
One month after throwing open the closet door, Tim Dean went to his first organized gay activity—a morning spent spiking, setting and sweating with other players in the Steel City Volleyball League. When he walked onto the court he was, ...
The Pittsburgh chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network participated in a national day of silence April 9 to protest discrimination and harassment against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students in schools across the nation. Participants at high schools ...
Metropolitan Community Church founder and moderator the Rev. Troy Perry will be one of the featured speakers at WOW 2003, the largest Christian event ever to focus on welcoming people of all sexual orientations, Aug. 14-17 at the University of ...
For the first time in its history, the undergraduate Student Government Board of the University of Pittsburgh has elected an openly gay male student. Of the eight new members elected to the board April 10, Todd Brandon Morris received ...
A dispute over the failure of a local gay and lesbian political group to endorse City Council President Gene Ricciardi in the May primary has resulted in the group being banned from local gay businesses. The Gertrude Stein Political ...
A handful of followers of Westboro Baptist Church pastor Fred Phelps came from Kansas to Pittsburgh May 3 to protest outside Heinz Hall during a public memorial service for television personality Fred Rogers. Phelps, the Topeka minister who gained ...
Fourteen members of the Steel City Softball League competed for the sixth consecutive year at the Gasparilla Softball Classic tournament, held in Tampa, Fla., over Presidents Day weekend, Feb. 15-16. The team representing Pittsburgh competed under the name Pittsburgh Pride ...
Longtime local bartender Bobby Evans died April 22 after jumping from the roof of the Real Luck Cafe in the Strip District. A member of a crew working on the nearby 16th Street Bridge told Out he saw Evans jump from the ...
WASHINGTON—Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, the US Senate’s third-highest ranking Republican, issued a statement April 22 charging that an Associated Press article was “misleading” when it quoted him comparing consensual gay sex to incest. Santorum’s announcement did little to placate ...
Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy has declared June 7 “Pittsburgh AIDS Walk and Community Day” in honor of the ninth annual fund-raiser to benefit the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force. “We are thrilled with Mayor Murphy’s proclamation,” said Leah Reynolds, ...
The Gertrude Stein Political Club of Greater Pittsburgh has endorsed Wrenna Watson, David Wecht, Kathryn Hens-Greco andChristine Ward in May 20 primary election races for the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Watson was endorsed on the Democratic ticket and ...
A Pittsburgh man has been named one of 10 national finalists for the 2003 Subaru Rainbow Leadership Award. The award is given annually by Subaru in conjunction with the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate to honor individuals and/or organizations that ...
The Epidemiological Study of Health Risks in Lesbians—known as the ESTHER Project—has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to conduct the first large-scale clinical investigation of differences between lesbian and heterosexual women for chronic disease risk factors. The ...
The competition will be stiff, and the winner will have a hard act to follow. That’s according to the Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania Action Fund, sponsor of the fifth annual condom packaging design contest, “Stiff Competition—Hollywood: A Hard Act ...
In public comments made after a monthly meeting of the University of Pittsburgh’s board of trustees, Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg said Temple University’s recent decision to offer health benefits to the domestic partners of its gay and lesbian employees is ...
Persad Center is currently seeking volunteers to assist with the organization’s 15th annual Art for AIDS/Art for Change auction, which will be held May 12. Volunteers are needed on the following dates: May 3, 7-10pm, for the patron party at ...
Equality Forum will be held in Philadelphia April 28-May 4. The seven-day symposium and festival, formerly known as PrideFest America, is the world’s largest and most comprehensive program about the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, featuring 76 programs and ...
This year’s Memorial Day picnic at the North Park Lodge will mark the 28th anniversary of the event—and the first sponsored by the Steel City Softball League. The SCSL took over sponsorship of this annual picnic from the Pittsburgh ...
The Gay and Lesbian Community Center has received a grant from the Three Rivers Community Fund to fund the purchase of a TTY, or teletypewriter, machine for the hearing-impaired and equipment to record gay and lesbian publications on tape for ...
Pittsburgh will mark 30 years of celebrating gay pride with a parade and street festival June 21. The Pride Parade will form at 10am at Westminster Place in Shadyside. Stepping off promptly at 11am, marchers will follow a route ...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, written by John Cameron Mitchell with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, is the first-person story of Hedwig, a transgender character born in East Berlin and influenced by American glam rock. The “angry inch” is ...
For almost four years, Pittsburgh attorney Christine Biancheria has argued that Pennsylvania’s adoption law leaves the issue of adoptions by gay and lesbian couples to the discretion of the courts. In an Aug. 20 ruling, the state’s highest court unanimously ...
The Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force and owners of gay businesses in the city are launching a pilot program they hope will encourage Western Pennsylvania’s young gay and bisexual population to get tested for HIV infection. The new initiative will place ...