On October 24, Brianna Serenity, a member of Pittsburgh’s LGBTQIA+ community, lost her home in a devastating fire. The blaze also impacted her home-based business, Brianna’s Mobile Workshop. As Brianna navigates the loss of her home, insurance claims, and an ...
The people who helped build Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ community and those creating its future will take center stage when the Pittsburgh Equality Center hosts its second annual Pittsburgh Equality Gala on Friday, November 13, at the Kamin Science Center on the ...
On Oct. 15, 2026, Silver Rail Elementary in Oregon became the latest site of a mass school shooting. Though by the time this is published, it’s entirely possible another school will take the title of “latest,” bumping Silver Rail to ...
Things got wicked on Ellsworth Avenue on Saturday, October 24, as 5801 Video Lounge & Cafe transformed into a haunted haven of drag, glamour, and Halloween mischief for A Nightmare on Hellsworth. Presented by 5801 and Central Outreach Wellness Center, ...
750,000 – that is the number of residents within the state of Pennsylvania that the state is estimating will be kicked off of their Medicaid plans on January 1st, 2027. In an effort to “decrease fraud, waste and abuse”, the ...
Three Republican leaders occupy positions of power that can determine whether LGBTQ+ equality legislation moves forward or remains stalled. They are Mike Johnson, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; John Thune, majority leader of the U.S. Senate; and, in ...
With Halloween falling on a Saturday this year, there is no shortage of events for queer yinzers to choose from to celebrate. But if you’re looking for something gritty, artsy, and kinky with a spooky edge, Obsidian’s Halloween parties may ...
The wigs were high, the jokes were filthy, and the competition was fierce! Pittsburgh’s funniest drag entertainers brought the camp, chaos, and comedy to Arcade Comedy Theatre on October 24 for the Miss City of Bridges Comedy Queen 2027 pageant. ...
On Thursday, October 22, Metro Community Health Center rolled out the red carpet for Roasted Roots Catering, a food truck that will travel around the Pittsburgh area, serving fresh foods and exciting menus. Metro Community Health Center brought out two ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify Happy Halloween week, Pittsburgh! 🎃👻 The costumes are coming out, the drag is getting delightfully dramatic, and somewhere in this city, somebody is already planning a Halloween look that requires a structural engineer. But before we ...
Queer horror is having a moment. The recent film “Leviticus” (2026), a harrowing allegory for conversion therapy, was a critical hit. Meanwhile, Ryan Murphy’s undeniably gay “American Horror Story” returned to TV this fall, offering a campier approach to the ...
Throughout history, queer people have been depicted as the monsters lurking in the shadows, threatening “normal” society. From Carmilla to Dracula to Dorian Gray to Frankenstein’s monster, representation of queer identity has often been hidden behind the monstrous. In the ...
Updated October 23, 2026 at 8:58 am. UPDATE: Penguins Shut Out Panthers in Pride Night Victory! The Pittsburgh Penguins gave fans even more to celebrate Thursday night, shutting out the Florida Panthers 4-0 during their annual Pride Game at PPG ...
You’ve got to hand it to Elon Musk. He is both the richest man in the world and a total fucking loser. He’s living proof that money can’t buy you happiness, money can’t make people like you and money can’t ...
This story was reported in partnership with Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ-focused investigative news outlet. On September 14, far-right influencer Chaya Raichik, known online as Libs of Tiktok, attacked a Washington state high school on Facebook for displaying a Pride flag. “Hey ...
Joe Locke, who played a sweet gay teenager on the hugely popular “Heartstopper,” is starring in a film that couldn’t be further from that warm, positive series. “Black Church Bay,” from filmmaker Rhys Marc Jones in his feature debut, tells ...
Is a blue wave an LGBTQ+ issue? Hell yes. But before anyone starts celebrating, let me ask you a question: Do you remember the last time almost everyone seemed convinced that a blue victory was inevitable? Donald Trump versus Hillary ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify Happy Monday, Pittsburgh! We’re more than halfway through October, the Halloween decorations are getting increasingly elaborate, and somewhere in Western Pennsylvania, somebody is already wearing a costume that requires a second person to help them through ...
Orville Peck would like you to look at his butt. For the art. “I told the director from the start, ‘I think we really should show off the butt,’” says Peck, who squatted his way into Vega’s matador tights for ...
Pennsylvania drag performers are being invited to speak up, share their experiences, and help shape conversations about the future of their community. Governor Josh Shapiro’s Advisory Commission on LGBTQ Affairs will host a virtual Drag Community Listening Session on Wednesday, ...
A gay teacher who was fired from a Greensburg Catholic school after administrators learned he had a husband will get to keep fighting his discrimination case in federal court. U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan denied Aquinas Academy of Greensburg’s ...
When Robin Tyler first appeared on Showtime’s “1st Annual Funny Women’s Show” in 1978, she asked host Phyllis Diller to introduce her as a lesbian. Diller said she could do the next best thing — calling her a feminist, because ...
Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ community will have some familiar faces on stage this Saturday, October 17, as hometown superstar Billy Porter and out Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta join the lineup for the latest “No Kings” rally in Downtown Pittsburgh. The event, ...
I have to admit, I had forgotten about Dennis Hastert. In fact, if you’d told me he’d already been dead for years, I would have accepted that without question. Or mourning. The former Republican speaker of the House died Oct. ...
On Saturday, October 24, a new comedy queen will take the crown in the Miss City of Bridges Comedy Queen 2027 at the Arcade Comedy Theatre in downtown Pittsburgh, hosted by Dixie Surewood. The event’s producer, Leia Way LeStat, said, ...
Pittsburgh in 2010 looked very different from what it does today and had very few trans- and non-binary-centered events or groups. In late fall 2010, a grassroots queer collective of trans and non-binary folks decided they wanted to create more ...
Before he was running “the gayest bakery in Western PA,” the owner of Evanly Bakes was training elephants. Evan Morgan-Newphis studied zoology in college and spent ten years training elephants at a zoo. Baking wasn’t part of his career plan ...
Pittsburgh knows a thing or two about champions, and this weekend, the city’s leather and fetish communities welcomed four more to the family. The 16th annual Steel City Fetish Con brought leatherfolk, kinksters, pups, bears, and fetish enthusiasts together October ...
Every year in Pennsylvania, LGBTQ rights are on the ballot twice: in primaries and general elections that decide what our government looks like, who it fights for, and whether it works at all. In less than 40 days, we have ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify Well, babes. We’re six! Yesterday, October 11, marked six years of QBurgh serving up local queer journalism, celebrating our community, documenting our history, and making sure Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ stories get told. Six years! That’s a lot ...
The legendary American author and activist James Baldwin, whose must-read work includes “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “Giovanni’s Room” and whose life was presented in the Academy Award-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” is the subject of ...
The myth that Judy Garland’s death caused the Stonewall riots is offensive to those of us who were there, and to those who spent the following year fighting every day to build the community we have today. Stonewall was not ...
Shepherd Wellness Community (SWC) brought the glitz, glamour, and plenty of heart to its 2026 Red Ribbon Benefit: A Community Cabaret, welcoming more than 120 supporters for an evening of entertainment, delicious food, and community connection. Hosted by Pittsburgh favorites ...
The first time I heard the words “Title Nine” I was in junior high. It was the ’90s, and those two words together had no meaning to me. One could argue that my school should’ve been teaching middle schoolers about ...
Shadowcast screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show are a time-honored Pittsburgh tradition since the days at the King’s Court Theater in 1978, which carried through the heyday of the 80s and 90s and created the JCCP you see today. ...
You never forget your first time at The Rocky Horror Picture Show. For me, it was a chilly October night in 2019. I was a junior in college, and I didn’t have any friends who would want to travel an ...
Students at a high school near Erie, Pennsylvania, are standing firmly behind their homecoming queen after her election sparked a wave of anti-transgender backlash online. Sammi, a transgender student at Fairview High School, was crowned homecoming queen during the school’s ...
Doing nothing for an election is not enough if you or someone you care about are LGBTQ+. Casting your own ballot on Election Day is necessary, but at this moment all of us must do more. Across the nation and ...
“When it rains, it pours,” Kevin Deese said, leaving a vet’s office in upstate New York with his sick dog in late July. Not only had he just lost the Democratic primary election for a State Assembly seat representing the ...
State Rep. Aaron Bernstine has resigned from his Pennsylvania House committee assignments less than a week after PennLive reported allegations that the Western Pennsylvania Republican used racist and homophobic language about openly gay Black state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta. Bernstine, who ...
Updated October 7, 2026 at 4:10 PM. Voices of Mosaic Apartments On weekend nights in the 1970s, Beth Kukucka, then a high school senior in Cambria County, dodged rocks and bottles hurled at her when she left a gay bar ...
This story was originally reported by Brooke Migdon of The 19th. Speaking to a crowd of supporters in central Florida in August, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds denounced his soon-to-be general election opponent for governor, Democrat David Jolly, as a “Trojan horse” for ...
Pittsburgh Police have determined that the October 3 shooting outside Lucky’s in the Strip District was not motivated by bias and that the longtime LGBTQ bar was not targeted because of its connection to the LGBTQIA+ community. Commander Eric Baker, ...
And a five, six, seven, eight… “Off The Record” returns to the Byham Theater on Thursday, October 15, with “Off The Record: One Single Yinzer Nation,” a parody of “A Chorus Line.” The show, a benefit for the Greater Pittsburgh ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify It was a rough week for queer news. We know. We felt it, too. And if you spent some of the past few days angry, exhausted, worried, or wondering whether opening your phone was really necessary, ...
What happens when Pittsburgh chefs, fashion designers, and drag artists are told to make everything black? Dinner, apparently. But make it queer philanthropy. O’Noir: The Experience returns to the Grand Hall at The Priory on Friday, November 6, bringing together ...
Updated October 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM. Pittsburgh Police now say detectives have determined that the shooting was not motivated by bias and that Lucky’s was not targeted because of its connection to the LGBTQIA+ community. Commander Eric Baker, the ...
Oversexed teenagers, invincible killers and a deserted cabin – what could possibly go wrong? Slasher movies that focus on teenagers being picked off by a killer are a horror staple. The victims were typically white and heterosexual, with villains that seemed ...
Calls are growing for Western Pennsylvania state Rep. Aaron Bernstine to resign after PennLive reported that the Republican lawmaker directed racist and homophobic slurs at fellow state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta and falsely claimed the openly gay Black legislator had AIDS. ...
The Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations is condemning UPMC’s settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that will keep gender-affirming medical care unavailable to young transgender patients for the next decade. In a public statement issued September 29, the Commission’s ...