First Class seats, a private car with a driver, and a luxurious suite in the most opulent hotel…these are all things that comprise a fabulous vacation and NONE of the things that I had when I went cage diving with ...
We all know the names of the more mainstream sexualities — gay, lesbian, straight, bisexual. But there are a few other sexual orientations which aren’t as well known, let alone recognized, by the socalled “mainstream LGBTQ” community. For example, if ...
The title of this article is a pun, no doubt about it. It was meant to draw a smile across your mouth, because that is what food is about: your mouth. All aspects of it — your lips, tongue, and ...
Though it feels so much like one, to us and probably to you, this is not an inaugural issue. Our team has been populating Crazy Mochas, late into the night, for five years of Pride Magazines. The decision to turn ...
As another year winds down, here are a few stories from 2010 we had no space for—but that merit a big ol’ LGBT shout-out. “Gay” and “NASCAR” are rarely used in the same sentence. But if we truly are everywhere, ...
Documentaries don’t often fall into the “tearjerker” category but 8: The Mormon Proposition (Wolfe Releasing) evokes tears of joy at the sight of gay and lesbian weddings in California, including that of George Takei and Brad Altman, followed by tears of rage at ...
Please don’t read this review. I know no one goes to a movie anymore unless there’s been so much hype, including trailers that reveal the entire plot, that they feel like they’ve already seen it. All I can say is ...
Hate: A Romance by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein (Faber & Faber, paperback)—The men who hate in Garcia’s provocative debut novel—an award-winner when published in France two years ago—once loved each other. Will is first seen as ...
Most of the characters Jim Carrey has played have been queer in one sense or another, so it’s not a great stretch for him to play gay in I Love You Phillip Morris. The actor who does the stretching is Ewan ...
Modern Family goes there Modern Family began its second season the object of fan protest. Why, asked viewers, on a sitcom featuring a gay couple, is that gay couple never seen being affectionate the way the straight couples are? It came down ...
10. Melissa Etheridge, Fearless Love—Hearing the musician return to her zenith and kill songs with raging burn was a rush like no other. She blows the spiraling top off the title track, spilling desperation into a Kings of Leon-like arena rock tune, ...
DJ Brian spins the dance tunes at Pegasus on Feb. 4; DJ Ronnie mans the music Feb. 11. The stage lights up at midnight Feb. 18 for Kierra Darshell’s Drag Contest. On Feb. 25 it’s the “Night of Little Monsters” ...
On Feb. 2 help There celebrate Hot Mess Groundhog’s Day with DJ Tanner at 10pm. It’s Chinese New Year Feb. 3! Get ready for Valentine’s Day and enjoy Angelique Young’s House of Love Feb. 4. On Feb. 12it’is the Anti-Valentine’s Party with ...
Cheer the Steelers at a Super Bowl Party featuring DJ Tony Ruiz Feb. 5. On Feb. 12 it’s the Anti-Valentine’s Day Party with DJ Ronnie. Mark your calendar now for Feb. 19 and the Annual Winter Party. It’s Gagarama Feb. ...
Celebrate lunar New Year at Club Pittsburgh with a black-out party at midnight on Feb. 5. Save money with a Valentine’s Day Discount Feb. 12-13. Dance to your favorite tunes with Spin Cycle with DJ Billy Feb. 19 from 11pm-4am. ...
Vice Versa kicks off Black History Month Feb. 4 with Sasha, Shan tell Cummings and Sasha Re’nee. Hot male dancers burn up the stage Feb. 5. On Feb. 11 it’s Alasha Karmichael, XTC and Harry Kane. Cheer for your favorite ...
Pittsburgh, PA Oct. 7, 2010- The Pittsburgh Gay and Lesbian Community Center is showcasing some amazing emerging talent this month on its walls in the continued effort to support and bringing the LGBT community, Fine Art community together with the ...
I worked my way through college as a security guard at a drive-in theater. My job was to catch ticket-dodgers as they emerged from their trunks, give jump starts to movie watchers who’d left their windshield wipers on too long, ...
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 ...
Pittsburgh will make history July 17-19 when it hosts “Unified for Youth,” Pennsylvania’s first statewide conference for LGBT youth, their families and straight allies. The event is being sponsored by the Pittsburgh chapter of GLSEN in cooperation with Persad Center, ...
Editor’s Note: This article was written prior to the untimely passing of Miss Lexus DeVaughn. We get lost on the way there. It’s to be expected. Never have we made an odyssey to a gay bar in Butler County our ...
The Tony-Award winning rock opera Spring Awakening is coming to Pittsburgh, and it’s sure to open more than a few eyes. Spring Awakening, which won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical in 2007, focuses on a group of young school children in ...
The Steel City Stonewall Democrats are in agreement with the Gertrude Stein Political Club on a number of endorsements. The Stonewall Democrats “recommended” Patrick Dowd for mayor; and “strongly endorsed” Anne Lazarus for Pennsylvania Superior Court, Barbara Behrend Ersnberger for ...
Last year’s Pride 2008 promoters, the Delta Foundation, promised “the biggest slate of pride events ever seen here.” That boast was justified by the considerable amount of pre-Pride activities, Pride week events and partner activities that lasted through June. This ...
Annual art auction set for May 11 It’s become the premiere art auction in southwestern Pennsylvania; it’s none other than the Persad Center’s Celebrate Life, Celebrate Art on May 11 from 6-11pm at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland. Hosted by ...
The Link hosted the Gay Life Newsletter’s 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards April 4. The fifth annual event attracted a crowd of more than 85 and helped to raise $300 to benefit Shepherd Wellness Community. Jezebel D’Opulence, Miss Diana Ross and Stephen ...
Once again the Delta Foundation has been working hard to prepare for this year’s Pride festivities. 2008’s Pride in the Street and the Pride March were incredibly successful, and this year the Delta Foundation has promised to make the 2009 ...
The Reverend Janet Edwards had the honor of first-speaker slot at the Join the Impact! Rally on Jan. 10. The Presbyterian pastor, sporting a rainbow scarf, announced her support of a bill designed to protect Allegheny County residents from gender ...
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 ...
For the last several months my friends and I have read with some amusement “Master’s Class,” the leather column in Out written by Colin Morgan. We’re not amused because the column is entertaining or informative so much as we’re discussing the vast ...
I am writing in regard to the “Colin Morgan” column [“Looking for a hook up in bars, not a Jell-O shot,” Out, April 2007]. As the current president of the Three Rivers Leather Club, I’m concerned as to the misrepresentation of ...
Marty Rouse came to Pittsburgh in June to attend the National Stonewall Democrats convention with a goal of mobilizing gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender voters and their allies. But his specific objective here in western Pennsylvania was to usher ...
The following article originally appeared in the October 2006 issue of Pittsburgh’s Out and is republished here for the first time in its entirety as originally published. Some language is dated. Help us preserve Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ history, like this article, by ...
I recently moved back to Pittsburgh after living in New York City and southern Florida. The last pride festival I attended in Pittsburgh was over 10 years ago and consisted of a couple hundred people walking through Shadyside to Mellon ...
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives recessed without taking a vote on the so-called “Marriage Protection Amendment.” It’s possible for the Legislature to vote on House Bill 2381 any time after they return on June 5, which coincidentally is the same ...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1The definition of marriage has again become an issue as state lawmakers debate legislation that could threaten the liberties of unmarried gay and lesbian couples in Pennsylvania. On June 6, the state House of Representatives ...
I know Pittsburgh has its fair share of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders. So why don’t we have our own neighborhood? Here are some interesting points: 1. Gay pride day will be held again this year at Riverfront ...
Composer Susan Haugh is enjoying a double honor this year: She was named grand marshal of the June 17 Pride Awareness March, and Dreams of Hope, the performing arts group she founded, is scheduled to perform on the main stage ...
The third annual Pittsburgh Pride Theatre Festival will spotlight the talents of local directors and actors as it features eight one-act plays by local playwrights on GLBT themes. The two programs of four plays each will run in alternating ...
The 2006 Pittsburgh PrideFest will recognize the achievements of the region’s GLBT community and its importance to the cultural, social and economic vitality of the area. Organizers expect the June 17 celebration to attract 6,000 to 8,000 participants—two to ...
As the opening day of the 2006 convention of the National Stonewall Democrats draws near, more activities and events have been finalized. The three-day event will be held in Pittsburgh June 2-4. The Stonewall Democrats announced on its ...
“You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without ...
The Gay & Lesbian Community Center’s Pittsburgh Three Rivers PrideFest Committee invites volunteers to its next meeting, April 20, at 7pm, at the GLCC. The committee is seeking volunteers to assist with preparations for Pittsburgh’s 2006 gay pride day, ...
The Steel City Softball League has launched a “Year 25” campaign to promote its quarter-of-a-century history and to continue its legacy as one of few organized outdoor recreation options for gay and lesbian Pittsburghers. The SCSL officially opens its ...
Howard Dean will visit Pittsburgh to serve as keynote speaker for the June 2-6 convention of the National Stonewall Democrats. Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is the first of a number of well-known Democratic Party leaders ...
The Gay and Lesbian Neighborhood Development Association has launched a mentoring effort that pairs young gay professionals with mentors who are willing to share their business world experience. GLENDA’s DiversityWorks program was formed in 2005 by Joseph Khanh D. ...
A schedule of events and activities aimed at making the annual convention of the National Stonewall Democrats this summer’s premiere gathering of GLBT political activists is quickly taking shape. The convention will be held in Pittsburgh June 2-5 and will ...
A renaissance over the past few years has enabled the 18-year-old Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival to afford office space at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, to enlist support from a strong and active group of volunteers ...