Egg nog, munchies and Eddie-oke—all part of a joyous Christmas Eve celebration at Images beginning at 9pm. And you’re invited to share the boyz’ first Christmas on Dec. 25. Those packages are just waiting to be unwrapped! End the month ...
After you cruise on the river Oct. 28, you’re invited to do a little cruising at an Oakland landmark. No, not the Cathedral of Learning—the venerable Holiday Bar! The night will offer an “extreme” Sunday meal package plus male dancers! And come back ...
Donny’s Place will mark 10 years of playing country music Oct. 13, and then celebrate a real milestone on Oct. 14—the business’s 29th anniversary! The birthday bash includes a free buffet and giveaways, but you must be present to win. As ...
Divas and hunks abound at True Colors in October. Kiana Toms rules on Oct. 5, but CoCo Vega takes over on Oct. 26. And expect hard bodied dancers for days: like on Oct. 6, Oct. 12, Oct 13 and Oct. 20. Panels from the AIDS ...
Axis takes a bite out of boredom in October. You’re sure to get excited when DJ Patrick Finn spins and the club distributes free X-Factor CDs on Oct. 12. DJ Tom McBride from Chicago’s Manhole uncovers the best in tribal house music on ...
No need to sit at home until the Oct. 27 Halloween bash at the Liberty Avenue Saloon. There’s something special offered at the Saloon every day of the week: wings on Sunday, chicken and steak salad on Monday, pizza on Tuesday, ...
Steubenville’s Club 2000 welcomes the divas—Jade St. Claire, ViVi Velure and Brazon— on Oct 13, but on Oct. 20, the guys take over: the high-flying Skyler and Company, that is. Club patrons may expose some hidden talents on Oct. 20 too, at ...
Don’t be an asp—be at the Eagle Oct. 6 when Crystal St. Clair passes her crown to a new winner on Miss Cleopatra night, and return for the Miss Tri-State Show on Oct. 13, when professional divas from here and there battle ...
Tuscany hopes you’ll be on your best behavior—or your worst, what the hell—for its Oct. 31 “Saints and Sinners” Halloween party. There will be cash prizes for best costume, but you may not care once you get a look at the ...
Perchance the Halloween season is too frightening to travel, but Vice Versa has concocted some frightfully fabulous fun to coax you to journey west. The drag races begin on Oct. 5 with Eda Bagel and Sonny La Rae, then Dame FiFi Damiana ...
Pegasus offers trash with flash in October. Mahogany works hard for the money Oct. 3 in her quest for Miss Tri-State; there’s a $3 cover. Don’t miss the Oct. 10 talent night to see if hostess Marsha Mellow will intone: ...
There’s never a cover at Real Luck Cafe—well, maybe a wee one over the dancers’ lucky charms. And those male and female dancers work the room every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday! A whole lotta shakin’ going on! For a look ...
Travel the world at Sidekicks! Enjoy Polish night on Monday, go Italian on Tuesday, and head south of the border for Mexican food on Wednesday. Set sail for seafood on Fridays, and Sidekicks beefs up its Saturday menu with prime ...
Check your inhibitions at the door—along with your cologne and polo shirts—and join the men of Leather Central to cheer their seventh year as Pittsburgh’s true leather and fetish bar. Check your Levi’s too for chaps night on Oct. 20, ...
The super boyz congregate at Images all through October. First up, those champions set forth Sunday nights for hi n-r-g grooves beginning at 9pm. What a way to start the week! Then go-go boyz lighten a hero’s load every Tuesday, ...
Lucille’s now hosts gay bingo every Tuesday beginning at 9pm, but that’s not the end of the winning lineup: There’s ’80s Night on Oct. 6 and the fall CD giveaway on Oct. 13. Lucille’s concludes the month with its Halloween costume ...
The Outrageous Bingo fund-raiser scheduled for November has been canceled. A spokesperson for the all-volunteer committee that organizes the monthly event cited low attendance at the October bingo as one factor in the cancellation. Committee members are reconsidering the location of ...
The Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force said it hopes to have a new executive director at the agency sometime in January, as a search committee continues its efforts to replace former PATF executive director David Stabile. Stabile served as executive director ...
The Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force has resumed outreach efforts on Prospect Drive in Schenley Park. The agency’s outreach efforts, which include the distribution of safer-sex kits containing condoms, lubricant and HIV risk-reduction information, were suspended this summer after Pittsburgh Police ...
The Gay and Lesbian Community Center has added nine members to its board of directors. Joining current board members Jim Fischerkeller, Sharon Davis, Janet Flecher and Deni Scott are: ! Jaylynn Brozell, who attended Chatham and Antioch colleges. Brozell will ...
For the first time since creating a scholarship fund in 1991, the Lambda Foundation has granted its academic scholarship award to a graduate student. The award will be presented at the 11th annual Lambda Ball Nov. 21. In previous years, ...
The brutal beating death of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming has prompted at least one group of Pennsylvanians to call on the state legislature to change the laws that deal with crimes motivated by hate. The Statewide Pennsylvania ...
Nearly 3,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists, organizers, academics and clergy from across the country are expected to be in Pittsburgh Nov. 11-15 to take part in the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s 11th annual “Creating Change” conference. ...
Get in on Leather Central’s Leather Weekend at Camp Davis. Make plans now for this hot weekend in the great outdoors June 26-28. And make a note of Leather Central’s summer hours: Friday and Saturday, 9pm-2am—the leather dress code will ...
The Lambda Foundation is currently soliciting grants for the 1998 summer granting cycle. Deadline for grant requests is June 1. Lambda encourages individuals and organizations who serve the needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities in the tri-state ...
The Delta Foundation, in cooperation with Tomy G Promotions, has donated $200 to Shepherd Wellness Community. The funds, which were originally granted to Tomy G Promotions to subsidize the participation of a cheerleading squad in the 1998 Gay Games, became ...
For the first time in its history, Pittsburgh’s leather community has a real chance to bring home an international title when Mr. Pittsburgh Leather 1998 Frank Waugh competes in the 20th International Mr. Leather contest in Chicago May 24. IML-related ...
A former University of Pittsburgh faculty member who registered a complaint with the Pittsburgh Human Relations Commission in 1996 accusing Pitt of discriminatory practices has filed to amend her complaint to a class action on behalf of all gay and ...
The Three Rivers Pride Committee has announced that Pittsburgh PrideFest 1998 has been scheduled for June 20. Beginning at noon, the Pride Parade will march through Shadyside, down Walnut Street and Ellsworth Avenue to Mellon Park, where the annual Pride ...
Women’s tennis star Pam Shriver visited the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force April 7 to promote the upcoming Virginia Slims Legends Tour. The tour’s first visit to Pittsburgh last year raised over $26,000 for the PATF. Proceeds from this year’s two-day ...
A proposal to overhaul Allegheny County government is causing concern among political observers within the local gay and lesbian community. Allegheny County voters will have the opportunity to determine the future of the so-called Home Rule Charter Proposal when they ...
Members of the Gertrude Stein Political Club of Greater Pittsburgh have announced their candidate endorsements for the May 19 primary election. Among the group’s endorsements: ! State Rep. Ivan Itkin received the club’s unanimous endorsement for the Democratic Party nomination for ...
What would Memorial Day be without a barbecue? Luckily, you don’t have to find out: The Real Luck Cafe will host an on-deck barbeque May 22 and May 23 to kick off an event-filled holiday blowout that includes male dancers ...
The Pittsburgh Eagle greets the lusty month of May with a roster of parties that prove that while clothes may not make the man—or woman—there’s just something about a uniform…. On May 8, don your most Divine apparel for “Miss ...
The weather may be heating up, but the Liberty Avenue Saloon is chilling with a special deal for Penguins fans. Just bring your valid game day ticket in before or after the Pens game, and the Saloon will take 50 ...
Celebrate the beginning of summer by spending your holiday at the New York New York. Check out the May 24 patio party, featuring a barbecue meal package served from 2pm ’til 5pm. You could also win prizes including brunch or ...
You didn’t suffer through those April showers just to sit inside in May. Stop and smell the flowers on one of the two outdoor patios now open at Donny’s Place on Polish Hill. And remember, for your spring-fever convenience, Donny’s is open ...
The following article originally appeared in the May 1998 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 ...
Members of the Gertrude Stein Political Club of Greater Pittsburgh have announced their candidate endorsements for the Nov. 4 general election. Among the group’s endorsements: Democrat Joseph A. Del Sole received the club’s endorsement for state Supreme Court. The ...
HEArt Human Equity Through Art is seeking literary and visual artists to participate in its “Letters From the HEArt” fund-raiser, Nov. 7 at Rosebud. Artists are invited to submit original artwork that reflects the organization’s values concerning human rights. According ...
More than $2,400 in missing funds were recovered by the Lambda Foundation Sept. 18 after the foundation’s board of directors threatened to seek a full police investigation into alleged misappropriation. At the foundation’s regular monthly financial review in July, board ...
Thanks to an influx of private donations from individuals and separate grants from the Lambda Foundation and Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Shepherd Wellness Community continues to operate without any cuts in its services to people affected by AIDS. SWC board members had ...
The Pride Inter-Faith Coalition of Pittsburgh will hold a pride interfaith community worship service June 18, beginning at 7:30pm, at the First Unitarian Church, located at Morewood at Ellsworth avenues in Shadyside. “We have planned this service to affirm and ...
Shepherd Wellness Community is currently creating a 400-page, general interest cookbook as its latest fund-raising effort. “Won From the Hear”t” will include recipes from TV’s Mister Rogers, actor Michael Keaton, director George Romero and the much- adored Liz Taylor. “Won ...
Put on your walking shoes and head for the hills–Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park to be exact, for the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force’s third annual AIDS pledge walk June 14. AIDS Walk ’97 begins with check-in and early registration at ...
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health has appointed Dr. Charles R. Rinaldo Jr. as chairman of the school’s Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. Rinaldo currently serves as director of the Pittsburgh site of the national Multi-Center ...
Pittsburghers in Gear–that’s PIG–are scheduled to be there. So are members of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center. And bars like the Pittsburgh Eagle. And what’s a gay pride parade without drag queens? Pittsburgh PrideFest ’97 kicks off at noon ...
Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is in the Hall, and so is black civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Tennis great Billie Jean King, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and astronaut Sally Ride are there too. Now, Cyndee Klemanski and Ellen Margolis ...
CHARLESTON, W. Va.–The steps of the West Virginia Capitol building in Charleston will be the site June 22 of the first statewide pride festival in West Virginia’s history. Borrowing the national pride theme, “Equality Through Visibility,” cochairs John M. Brown ...
Everyone–tennis fans, players, promoters and the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force– walked away from the Virginia Slims Legends Tour a winner. “We were thrilled,” said PATF Director of Development Frank Leavens. “I, along with other people from the Task Force, was ...