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 ...
It’s officially Spooky Season, and if Halloween is your queer holiday of choice, you’ll be thrilled to learn that Cassandra Peterson, the queer actor who’s been playing the sexy comedy witch Elvira for well over 40 years, has a new ...
Updated on September 30, 2026 at 2:05 PM. An alleged blackface performance at Blue Moon Bar’s weekly Open Stage Wednesday has sparked anger, grief, and calls for accountability across Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ community, with Black performers asking not only how it ...
Mom always said to tell the truth. One lie leads to another and another and you have to remember them all until pretty soon, you’re caught. Fibs are hard, mistruths are messy, even little white social lies can destroy trust. ...
It’s been a long time since I thought about Lauren Boebert. I think the last time she was on my radar was when she was giving Beetlejuice handies to some guy and then crying that she was acting out while ...
Central Outreach Wellness Center has opened a new hepatitis C treatment center on Pittsburgh’s North Side, bringing hepatitis C care, sexual health services, harm reduction, and recovery support together at one location. The new HepCMyWay Center of Excellence is located ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify Well, babes. September is packing its bags. Somehow we’ve gone from sweating through Pride season to wondering whether it’s socially acceptable to put a decorative gourd on every available surface. It is. But the change of ...
We know him as Kumar in the “Harold & Kumar” movies, but Kal Penn has spent the past two decades happily refusing to stay in one lane: He left acting for a stint in the Obama administration, returned to Hollywood ...
This story was originally reported by Orion Rummler of The 19th. Penny Gautreaux has spent her career helping people in crisis. But facing her own took a village. A licensed social worker and therapist, Gautreaux struggled with an eating disorder for 24 ...
In 1990, Ian Charleson was the highest-profile British actor to die of AIDS and the first to publicly state that AIDS was his cause of death. Before that, he was one of the most acclaimed stage and film actors of ...
In journalism, we’re taught never to bury the lede. So here’s the lede: The LGBTQ+ community could be an important part of what happens in November’s midterm elections. We keep hearing predictions of a possible Democratic wave that could change ...
U=U. Those three characters stand for “undetectable equals untransmittable,” and when it comes to HIV, it’s a modern miracle. If you live with HIV and take your medication, you can achieve an undetectable viral load. When that happens, you are ...
Stop telling trans people they have to vote for anti-trans Democrats. Stop telling them they’ll be responsible for the fall of democracy unless they do. I’ve been thinking a lot about something @nome.bsky.social posted to Bluesky on Sept. 15: “I ...
For nine days this October, Pittsburgh is getting a whole lot queerer at the movies. Reel Q returns for its 41st season October 2 to 10, expanding across Pittsburgh with screenings at seven venues and a lineup stretching from lesbian ...
Disability Pride Pittsburgh is coming to Schenley Plaza to celebrate community, joy, andaccess. This year’s theme is “We Belong Here and We’re Here to Stay.” Now in its fifth year, the event centers people with disabilities and all their intersectingidentities. ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify Sometimes we talk about queer joy like it’s something you have to go looking for. Book the trip. Buy the ticket. Find the gay bar. Wait for Pride Month to roll around again. But this week’s ...
You try, and you try. Once, twice, you go back at that thorny issue, the dream you have, the punchline that’s not hitting quite right. Sometimes, time is all you need to make it better, or a new approach, or ...
UPMC has reached a $950,000 settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that will keep gender-affirming medical care unavailable to young transgender patients across the Pittsburgh health system. The Justice Department announced the agreement Friday, September 18, saying it resolves ...
This story was originally reported by Amanda Becker of The 19th. How many women does your employer have in management positions compared to industry peers? Are a retail chain’s Black workers as likely to be in public-facing roles as its ...
Sapphic September is a month-long celebration of sapphic representation in books. Here are a few gems to add to your reading list! Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil Toxic lesbian vampires! Say less! I first heard about this book ...
I was at a concert recently and a person next to me was wearing a cross-body bag that read, “Speak Up for Your LGBTQ+ Friends.” This person appeared to be your average straight white guy. The fact is, straight guys, ...