Tag: From Then to Now to When

From Then to Now to When is a QBurgh video series documenting the evolving story of Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ community.

Each episode spotlights the people preserving queer history, building community in the present, and imagining new spaces for the future. Through intimate interviews and glimpses into local events, organizations, and cultural spaces, the series connects generations of queer life in the city.

From underground nightlife archives to queer-owned businesses and emerging community spaces, From Then to Now to When explores how the past shapes the present — and how today’s work is creating the queer Pittsburgh of tomorrow.

Holding Queer Memory with Harrison Apple

At The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Harrison Apple (they/them), co-director of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, unfolds the city’s queer past like a fragile letter pulled from a back pocket. What started in 2009 as an art student helping ...

WHEN: The Soft Spot Is a Queer Pittsburgh Dream for the Future

For this episode of From Then to Now to When, we meet Aerin Adams, the self-described “Lesbian in Charge” of The Soft Spot, a new sapphic, sober café space in Garfield. The Soft Spot is a vision for a community ...

NOW: Building Queer-Centered Safety with K8 Do It

In the “Now” installment of “From Then to Now to When,” we sit down with Kaitlin and Stephanie Muczyk, wives and business owners behind K8 Do It, a Pittsburgh handygal service redefining what it means to care for your community. ...

THEN: 40 Years of the Pittsburgh Pride Choir

In the first installment of From Then to Now to When, a new video series honoring the past, present, and future of Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ community, we shine a spotlight on the Pittsburgh Pride Choir, a beloved legacy organization that has ...