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.

WHEN: T4T Magazine Is Building a Collaborative Archive of Trans Creativity

For Calvin Ecker (he/him), discovering queer zines and discovering trans community happened almost simultaneously. At the same time he was beginning to understand queerness in the adult world, through friendship, relationships, and online spaces, he also encountered the phrase “T4T,” ...

NOW: Magic Hour Creative Is Building the Space Young Queer Creators Deserve

At Magic Hour Creative in Carrick, young filmmakers are learning more than just how to make movies. They’re learning how to trust their ideas. Co-founder and creative director Tricia Hosac (she/her) says one of the most rewarding parts of the ...

MCC Pittsburgh and the Search for Spiritual Belonging

For Pastor Louis Martinage, finding Metropolitan Community Church Pittsburgh in the early 1990s was life-changing. At the time, being openly gay and openly Christian felt impossible to reconcile. “The gay people in my life hated the church,” he recalls. “The ...

Headstone Salon and Gender-Affirming Care through Hair

At Headstone Salon in Millvale, a haircut can be much more than just an aesthetic; it can be transformational. Co-owners Aiden Sin Flame (she/they) and Zoe Davis (she/her) have created a space rooted in care, trust, and deep listening. For ...

From Then to Now to When: Treasure Treasure on Art, Identity, and Creative Freedom

For Pittsburgh artist Treasure Treasure, performance has always been a way of exploring the self. A performing artist, comic, composer, filmmaker, and multi-instrumentalist with a career spanning more than thirty years, Treasure’s work moves fluidly across mediums from theater and ...

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 ...