I am writing to urge readers not to support Arlen Specter in his current run for re-election to the US Senate. Many Pennsylvanians see Specter as a moderate; for some of us Democrats, splitting our ticket to vote for ...
Prior to this year’s June 21 PrideFest celebration, the group behind the Pride Parade’s “Queer as Fuck” contingent was relatively unknown. Since then, the self-described radical queer project known as Resyst has attracted attention not only for its confrontational tactics ...
A mass commitment ceremony is one of the activities planned for the 14th annual International Friendship Weekend, to be hosted by Asians & Friends-Pittsburgh Aug. 28-Sept. 1. “Here’s an opportunity to [have a commitment ceremony] in front of your ...
The Lambda Foundation of Pittsburgh is accepting applications for its 2003 Lambda Foundation Scholarship award. Each year, Lambda awards a $3,000 scholarship to a college student who has made an outstanding contribution toward the integration of gay, lesbian, bisexual and ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va.—West Virginia’s first political action committee has formed and plans to provide financial backing for candidates who favor inclusive hate crimes legislation, fair housing, civil unions and rights protections in the workplace. “It was long overdue,” said Robert Sheets, ...
Voices for a New Tomorrow, a group formed in response to the 2002 needs assessment survey sponsored by Persad Center, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center and the Seven Project, has begun working to address the concerns identified in the ...
If Massachusetts begins issuing civil marriage licenses to same-sex couples, two local men say they will travel to the state for a spring wedding and challenge the federal Defense of Marriage Act when they return to Pennsylvania as newlyweds. “There ...
Two years after the body of a popular bartender at Sidekicks and Images was found in her burned-out Jeep near her apartment on the city’s North Side, Pittsburgh Police are no closer to knowing who killed Jamie Stickle. Stickle, who ...
Local laws that protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens are under attack in Erie and Allentown. And gay rights activists in the state say the two cases demonstrate vastly different strategies for undermining laws that guarantee equal protection. ...
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 26 ruling in Lawrence vs. Texas that same-sex relationships are worthy of the same respect and dignity as heterosexual relationships, the two of us felt not only joy and relief, but also a daunting ...
We gays should start taking pride in Schenley Park. It’s the only place we can hang with friends, yet no one wants to keep it clean. People leave trash, beer bottles and condoms lying around, and some don’t clean up after their dogs or follow the leash law. If we don’t take pride in ...
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, ...
Wondering what’s hot, feel-good or controversial about the 18th annual Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival? Out went to the source: festival program director Laura Annibalini and guest relations coordinator Mitch Leib, who submerged themselves in videocassettes at home and celluloid ...
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 ...
With three seats up for grabs in the Family Division of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, gay and lesbian voters have an opportunity to influence the future of parental rights in the county. Kathryn Hens-Greco and Chris Ward, ...
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 ...
Thirteen members of the Steel City Softball League traveled to Montreal over the Labor Day weekend to participate in the 5th annual Le Rendez-Vous du Lys softball tournament. Playing as the Shepherd Boys, the team began its first of three ...
Domestic partner benefits, the fight against discrimination at the University of Pittsburgh and transgender empowerment will be among the topics of several workshops to be offered at the fourth annual “Transformation at the Roots” conference sponsored by the Statewide Pennsylvania ...
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 ...
The Steel City Softball League will kick off its 22nd season with its annual “Spring Training” event for new and returning members. The purpose of spring training is to review the basics of softball competition and to determine the skill ...
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 ...
One year after the body of popular Sidekicks bartender Jamie Stick;e was found in her burned-out Jeep, circumstances surrounding her death remain a mystery. Stickle’s body was discovered last Feb. 8 by Pittsburgh firefighters called to extinguish a car fire. ...
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 ...
Downtown, North Shore, Squirrel Hill, even on the CMU campus—we’re queer, we’re here, we’re all over town! But that’s not an official slogan for the 17th annual Pittsburgh International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; the theme for this year’s event, ...
Just eight days after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that gays could adopt the children of their same-sex partners, the Ohio Supreme Court declared on Aug. 28 that two lesbians could not become parents of each other’s children on the ...
Downtown, North Shore, Squirrel Hill, even on the CMU campus—we’re queer, we’re here, we’re all over town! But that’s not an official slogan for the 17th annual Pittsburgh International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; the theme for this year’s event, ...
When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled unanimously in August that the Pennsylvania Adoption Act does not prevent a gay or lesbian person from adopting their partner’s child, its 13-page opinion used the word “absurd” three times to describe the current ...
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 ...
After six months without answers, friends of Jamie Stickle continue to hope that someone will come forward with information that will help Pittsburgh Police piece together the events that to her death. Stickle, a 33-year-old bartender who had worked at ...
A memorial of 48 candles illuminated both sides of Liberty Avenue March 22 in remembrance of Ja mie Stickle, the popular 33-year-old bartender whose body was found behind the wheel of her burning Jeep Wrangler Feb. 8. The candles, which ...
Almost a month after the body of 33-year-old Jamie Stickle was found inside her burning Jeep on the city’s North Side, Pittsburgh police are still looking for suspects and a motive in the apparent murder of the woman who had ...
Try a change of scenery and welcome the new year at Axis and Bounce. In Columbus, Axis plans a night that sizzles when guest DJ Chuck Quarles ushers out the old year and DJ Tom McBride welcomes in the new. In Cleveland, Bounce promises a New Year’s ...
We need a little Christmas, right this very minute—and the Real Luck Cafe is ready to oblige. A free buffet is the draw on Christmas Eve, and a free turkey and ham buffet with all the trimmings will be offered ...
Does the sight of Santa’s big black boots give you that, well… Kris Kringle tingle? Then you should spend the holidays at Leather Central. Enjoy a bar social Dec. 15 when Leather Central urges everyone to “Come Home for the Holidays”—and ...