There’s a lot of news these days about LGBTQIA+ people being left out of the Census. It’s true, the U.S. Census does not ask about sexual orientation, which would be extremely useful. This information is used for everything from social ...
Model Merrick Shan Soleil wearing a binder following Glitter Grandpa’s template Glitter Grandpa is Pittsburgh’s friendly neighborhood queer and trans sewist looking to get you into a binder that fits YOU. He has created a step-by-step guide that teaches you how to draft your ...
To preface, I want to state that in no way is this intended to invalidate those who choose to de-transition. There are multitudes of reasons that folks choose to do so, from bridging the gap between body and mind to ...
Ballroom culture has long been a fixture for queer people of color, with accounts dating back to the early 20th century. It inspired Madonna’s Vogue album and video, and is the subject of the film Paris is Burning as well as the new ...
Imagine for a moment, that you’ve finally found a high-paying job with flexible hours. This job doesn’t mind that you’re gay, transgender, disabled, Black, Latinx, or any other reasons you may have been discriminated against in the past. The work ...
One of the little known facts about Pittsburgh is that, despite Pennsylvania’s failure to protect its LGBTQIA+ residents with State laws, the City actually steps up. QueerPGH talked to Megan Stanley from the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, a law enforcement ...
Pittsburgh welcomes queer artist Joseph Cavalieri! His work features medieval stained glass techniques with an ironic pop twist in clever and irreverent combinations. He will be a featured artist in an upcoming show called Material World at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. He tells ...
Some people are just born bendy, literally and metaphorically. or so it seems. Biologically speaking some people have longer ligaments, the tough rope-like attachments that connect bones as well as more extensible tendons, the muscular attachments to the skeleton. However, ...
I don’t know about you, but I’m stoked for Anthrocon this year! What’s Anthrocon? From the experts: Anthrocon is the world’s largest convention for those fascinated with anthropomorphics, which are humanlike animal characters, the like of which have fascinated mankind since the ...
I think that I have to start this article by making it very clear that I’m not taking sides. My motive here is not to defend or bash any of the involved parties but, rather, to cross my fingers and ...
We made Pride Guide Part 1 and yinz came back with a whole host of other events to include. It’s good to see so many celebrations, marches and chances to be around other queerbies. SO here it is, Queer Pittsburgh Pride Guide ...
I’ve got my rainbow shorts purchased, a bottle of sunscreen, and a seemingly endless list of Pride events to attend this year. These are events from June 1- June 10. If we missed your event, send it to @queerpgh.com and ...
Imagine being a woman at at a local bar. You’re just hanging out with friends and having a nondescript-chill evening. You slip off to the women’s bathroom, only to be followed in by the establishments’ security guard and told to ...
On May 12, 2018 Pittsburgh’s queer families and their allies gathered for a two-part event at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The fun began in the gallery with Drag Queen Story Hour and continued in the Melwood Screening room with Over the Rainbow a 50-minute program of ...
This is a continuation of the series “Invisible Neighborhood,” which explores the historical and present spaces in which Pittsburgh’s LGBTQIA+ communities live and thrive. Read the first section here. In the 1980s, AIDS took hold of Pittsburgh, but only increased the ...
The Allies Ball was held this Saturday, April 21st, to help raise money for the Allies for Health + Wellbeing, a local organization dedicated to health and wellbeing, formerly known as the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force. The event was held at ...
PLEASE TRY THIS AT HOME: A Collaborative Conference About Radical Bodily Autonomy and Technology is being held on March 11th at Bloomcraft, in the Glitterbox Theater. It is a collaborative project between Prototype PGH and the Big Idea bookstore. QueerPGH had a chance to talk shop with ...
QueerPGH: Thank you so much for agreeing to do an interview with QueerPGH ahead of your speaking engagement at University of Pittsburgh as well as for the work you do. On a personal note, I am really grateful for your writing at autistichoya. ...
We’ve all seen those movies. Someone is alone at night. They hear a noise, but just dismiss it as their imagination. And then, boom! The killer/monster strikes, and we the audience, who knew all along, have all of our fears ...
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey challenges us to shine. It challenges those who aren’t queer to, well… queer it the hell up! In this spirit, City Theatre reaches out to its audience with a story all too familiar to the queer community. ...
Author’s note: I appreciate a community member who pointed out potential ambiguity here. The article has been edited to emphasize that we are talking about “legal” and “illegal” use in the zoning code, and that does not mean drag is ...
Dubbed Cirrhosis of Liver, Sonia Maybottom is a 32 year old, 6 year veteran in the drag community, a member of the Manic Monday house cast at P Town Bar, and a founder of the Birdcage Players Theater Company. After two drag performances ...
“I knew, right off the bat, that if I openly associated myself with these people, even though I was really into what they were doing, everyone would drag me through the dirt for it.” Paul Peng tells me this as ...
Drag N’At will be doing performer profiles, focused on the local PGH drag scene. Some of our folks have left us for other states, but they will always be Pittsburgh performers in our hearts. I met Orion at a random show ...
Thursday the 14th of December was a terrible day. I am a film student and it was finals week, so I was sitting in a classroom watching everyone’s rushed film projects. My peers may be extremely talented people, but we ...
I’d been sporting the same pack of Hanes boxers (you know, the kind you can only acquire after dodging around the gendered holiday stocking stuffers upstairs at Target) for a while, so I was pumped to try out Glitter Grandpa’s ...
Hey! Welcome to the frequent(ish) column here at QueerPGH highlighting our drag community! We are a collective of performers and supporters from all over the city looking to really shine the light on our drag community, to lift it up ...
What do your queer friends actually want for the holidays? I’ll tell ya. They want a local queer community that supports one another and works together to reach economic equality, right? So, how do we get that? I’m not totally ...
Proud Haven is a non-profit that focuses on the needs of LGBTQIA+ youth experiencing homelessness. They got started unofficially in 2012, in response to a crisis on both the local and national levels. Recently, Proud Haven had a fundraiser called Tunes ...
Art is inspirational for many, and permanently marking our bodies is a celebration of self and life. Let’s face it: many of us, myself included, are way into tattoos and other forms of body modification. Tattooing, in particular, is a ...
The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Pittsburgh recently changed its name to the Pittsburgh Equality Center. “We struggled with the potential for hurt feelings by removing the references to the words ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’, but as the LGBTQIA+ community has ...
This past week, a white man in Las Vegas took a whole mess of automatic weapons and surpassed the Pulse Nightclub slaughter as the most deadly mass shooting in recent U.S. history. After Pulse, I had to write. I was still ...
On Friday October 13th, Pittsburgh’s own LGBT film festival, Reel Q, will be kicking off downtown! From the perspective of 2017 it can be hard to appreciate the value of media representation for our community. The premier of new season ...
This first installment of Sex Ed 101 will focus on dental dams! Sex Ed 101 is a series to help provide the sex ed you may have missed. There are plenty of topics that I could have discussed first, but I have found over ...
Despite the fact that our state’s Acting Secretary of Health and Physician General, Rachel Levine, is an openly trans woman who practiced gender care, it may seem almost impossible to find a queer-friendly, doctor in Pittsburgh who is knowledgeable about LGBTQIA+ ...
Are college campuses doing enough for their transgender students? According to The Healthy Minds Study, a national survey of over 14,000 students on campuses across the United States, 32.7 percent of transgender respondents thought about attempting suicide in 2013. In addition, ...
Despite varied stances on the American Military Industrial Complex within the LGBTQIA+ community, many experienced a thrill of outrage upon reading President Trump’s series of tweets on Wednesday July 26, 2017. Trump’s tweets stated his intention to ban transgender individuals from serving ...
Kids are gender-explorers, still developing their own sense of what gender is and how they want to express it. For queer kids, seeing and interacting with queer adult role models can give them confidence in themselves and who they are ...
In a move designed to distract and alienate, President Trump announced via tweet at 6 a.m. on July 26th that he would be instituting a ban on trans people serving in the United States Armed Forces. This would overturn a ...
Hey, queers! As promised, I’m back with something super special! It’s Part 2 of the Queer Pride Guide with 21 awesome events happening between Thursday, June 9th and Friday, June 16th! This week there are 21 unique events that are ...
When you hear the word “Pride,” many queer and trans people think of the official Pride March. For years in Pittsburgh that has meant the Pride Festival and Parade hosted by the Delta Foundation, and for years some Pittsburghers have ...
This here is just an overview to help you understand the language used by NB (non-binary) people who have less popular pronouns than ‘he’ and ‘she’. These non-he-and-she pronouns are commonly known as gender neutral pronouns, and are often used ...
For the 5th year in a row, the FIERCE! queer burlesque festival will celebrate sexy queer bodies through creative dance, featuring hot performers diverse in age, race, ethnicity, class, body type, access/ability, and gender expression. This year, the festival returns to ...
April 21, 2017 is the GLSEN Day Of Silence. For those of you who don’t know what the Day of Silence is, I’ll explain. GLSEN stands for the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network. Their Day of Silence has been ...
Since 2010, Hot Metal Hardware (HMH) has been a staple of genderqueer entertainment in Pittsburgh, presenting all manner of drag and burlesque shows at locations around the city. Their upcoming event, GET BENT! A Night of Gender Fauxery, focuses on ‘gender mayhem’ ...
A little while ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Pastor Shanea Leonard of Judah Fellowship to discuss church hurt, intersectionality, community building outside the City, and everything that she’s been working on in and around Pittsburgh. The Judah Fellowship Christian Church is ...
I’ve spent the last seven years studying and practicing organizational psychology, a field that seeks to enhance the workplace from a people perspective. This might conjure up thoughts of Google nest pods, annoying surveys about your work attitudes, and measuring ...
“Burlesque is about feminism. Burlesque is about power. Burlesque is about women doing what they want and loving themselves.” What society thinks is sexy–who gets depicted as sexy, what sort of bodies are given that designation, is a thing that ...
Heya Sister 6P, Silicone or water-based? I can never decide. Thanks,Lou-b’d Dear Lou-b’d First of all.. A water-based sex toy may sound fun.. But the ice insertables do come with a risk. Meanwhile, the insert-into-able ice sex toys do help ...
Dear Costa,My girlfriend moved in with me and my dog, Apollo, about 9 months ago. She always got along with the dog but lately it seems she’s more interested in Apollo than she is with me. She never asks me ...