When I was a child, my family made a tradition of cutting down our own Christmas tree. On these excursions, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad about taking the life of something so permanent for only a few ...
Pittsburgh native and Chatham University student Ashley Dunbar is a very busy young lady. She is currently studying Elementary Education and mourning her favorite sports team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. She’s also talking a lot about her new favorite book, Born ...
“If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it,” sings Willy Wonka, the title character in the 1971 classic about an improbable tour through a magical chocolate factory. For a young Chris Edwards, paradise was closer than ...
Dear Friends, As newlyweds, my wife and I are all about adopting new traditions for our little family(me and her and our two female cats, Doug and Manny). We revel in morning coffeedates on the couch and Sunday nights, making ...
5 p.m. Welcome a few friends at home for a quick, decadent gathering with Trefethen Chardonnay, mixed nuts, and dark chocolate-covered Goji berries. 6 p.m. Head over to Point Brugge in Point Breeze to see Dana and Jay for a ...
Sean Oates is an ally and friend of the LGBT community in Western Pennsylvania, and has been since an early age. He is Landmark Event Staffing’s assistant branch manager. His contracts include Heinz Field, Stage AE, Petersen Events Center, AJ ...
There they are again, those two beautiful men walking down the street. Maybe you notice the “deep v” of the cute blond on the right, or the awesome Ray Bans of his partner, but more striking — there’s no missing ...
An “Airline Baby.” That’s what I was called as a child, the son of a flight attendant. From the early age of, well, before I was born, I was already flying high. So it’s no surprise that, as an adult, ...
I was not one of the 8.6 million people that watched the finale of NBC’s Fashion Star, so when I sat down to interview Kara Laricks, the first-ever winner of the show, I wasn’t prepared for the disarmingly open woman ...
“Tag, you’re it!” For the five movers and shakers on this list, that’s more than a phrase breathlessly called out on the playground. It’s a call to action and a challenge to make service to others seem like the obvious ...
“I have a part for you in the Black and White Festival,” said the voice on the phone. Since earning a degree in acting in college, theatre has been a big part of my life. I have worked with a ...
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Getting to ZeroUniversity Club, Oakland412-624-1895pamaaetc.org 25th Annual World AIDS Day CeremonySponsored by the Pitt Men’s Study7:30 PM, Heinz ChapelReception to follow in Reconciliation Hall FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 National House Ball8 PM – 2AMHilton Garden Inn, Oakland Project ...
“One of the first items I brought with me when I started at PNC was a picture of my partner and I at dinner in New York City,” says Joshua Stewart, the Diversity and Inclusion Strategies Manager of PNC. Today, ...
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 ...
Josh Gilchrist was born into an active family. In high school, he was always playing a team sport, always on the go. When he started college, he traded in team sports for outdoor sports, like rock-climbing and snowboarding. By junior ...
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 ...
This election is crucial because it showcases two Presidential candidates withdiametrically opposed notions of who LGBT people are. President Obama believes we are equals. Governor Romney does not. On May 9, 2012, President Obama publically supported same-sex marriage, and, in ...
Something was brought to my attention recently. I took my mom to a party, hosted by an ex-girlfriend and her new girlfriend. I was greeted by a few of my ex-girlfriends from years past, and some of their new girlfriends. ...
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 ...
“Take Me Out”, by playwright Richard Greenberg is the Book to Watch Out For and the play to see this summer. A collaboration between Borders, Barebones Productions and the Three Rivers Arts Festival that formed the perfect baseball diamond and ...
In 1758, on land that belonged to generations of Allegawis, Delaware, Seneca, Iroquois and other native tribes, a fort was built by British and Colonial troops. Led by Generals John Forbes and George Washington, the hastily built facility would be ...
1. For young people, if they could glean one message from your work and life, what would it be? I hope it would be overcoming circumstances, no matter what your circumstances are. If you work hard enough you can go ...
To be successful, you have to learn the art of transformation. When Kierra Darshell walks out from his daily job as a computer analyst to cook dinner or play cards with friends, he is a boy. “I love being a ...
“I’ve seen a lot more women out there over the last year since Pride in the Street 2007 than my entire gay life,” said Loni McCartney, a board member on the Delta Foundation. More opportunities exist today to see Lesbian ...
“The legislation before us today is not about protecting or enhancing a cherished principle, but a bill that reflects pandering and political posturing on a hot button, emotionally-charged issue,” Pittsburgh City Councilman Bruce Kraus said before the congressional hearing. Meanwhile ...