To our incredible Reel Q community, As we close out our 40th anniversary year, we want to express our gratitude to every filmmaker, audience member, sponsor, partner, volunteer, and supporter who has made four decades of Reel Q possible. Since ...
Trans youth and their families in Pennsylvania saw a significant legal victory on Friday, just not the one many in Pittsburgh had been hoping for. On Friday, a federal court in Philadelphia quashed a sweeping subpoena from the U.S. Department ...
Originally published by our partners at The19th on November 20, 2025. Decades of progress in HIV treatment and prevention in the United States is being derailed by the Trump administration, public health experts say — and without reversing course, the damage will be ...
In this special bonus episode of the QBurgh Podcast, host “Nebby” Nick Tommarello gets deep and delightfully nosy with award-winning filmmaker and journalist Hansen Bursic. They dish on everything from Pittsburgh’s rich queer film scene, including Reel Q Film Festival ...
Originally published by our partners at NEXTpittsburgh on November 17, 2025. After UPMC announced its decision to end gender-affirming care for queer youth this year, everything changed for 15-year-old transfemme Juno and her family. Suddenly, the care Juno had been getting for ...
Local leader Dena Stanley and her organization, TransYOUniting, have been awarded the 2025 J.M.K. Innovation Prize, a prestigious national honor recognizing bold, early-stage projects tackling critical social challenges. The award, which includes $175,000 in unrestricted funding, comes as an affirmation ...
Updated Thursday, November 20, 2025, at 3:16 PM. It has been a year of celebration and remembrance for Allies for Health + Wellbeing, as the organization has marked its 40th anniversary in 2025. Allies was founded as the Pittsburgh AIDS ...
Families, medical providers, and activists are calling out UPMC for what they say is a deliberate and dangerous decision to end gender-affirming care for trans youth and to comply, silently, with a federal subpoena seeking the private medical records of ...
Hear ye, hear ye. Gather round, folks. I’ve got an important pronouncement to make: Kim Davis can fuck all the way off! I know, I know. That’s not very nice. But it’s a hell of a lot nicer than what ...
In my family, religion was always a source of conflict — probably as it is in many families around the world. My grandmother was a devout Catholic, a faithful follower of traditions. My mother, on the other hand, belonged to ...
Welcome to The Quickie, Central Outreach Wellness Center’s monthly rundown of blogs, events, and health tips, served with sass and zero shame. It’s short, sexy, and gets right to the good stuff, and it’s delivered in part by QBurgh. We believe sexual health ...
TransYOUniting celebrated its tenth anniversary on Saturday, November 15, 2025, with the “Gilded Decade Gala,” an evening of awards, performance, and reflection held at Sunken Bus Studios. The event, themed after 1920s glamour, drew community members, local leaders, and longtime ...
The Fall 2025 season of Stonewall Ultimate concluded under dramatic skies on Wednesday, November 5, with an evening of weather delays, intense matchups, and a community-focused awards ceremony that reflected the spirit and strength of the league. Finals Night began ...
Mayor-elect Corey O’Connor has nominated Jason Lando, an openly gay, longtime Pittsburgh police officer and current chief in Frederick, Maryland, as the city’s next Chief of Police. If confirmed, Lando will become the second openly LGBTQ+ person to serve as ...
When people are trying to make it harder for you to vote, what they’re really doing is trying to make it harder for you to live. I’m writing this on Election Day. Election Day is also not an official holiday. ...
Lavender marriages, traditionally entered into by LGBT+ individuals to conceal their sexual orientation, are on the rise, according to several news sources, with some even calling them a “trend.” Historically, lavender marriages refer to unions — often between two consenting LGBT+ individuals — formed as ...
Stonewall Kickball Pittsburgh just wrapped up our largest season ever! We had 538 players across 30 teams in three divisions. This is the most players and most teams in the history of our league. During our playoffs tournaments on November ...
When a serial killer’s trail of corpses points to an innocent bisexual sex worker (Hal Baum), how does he solve the mystery? You’ll find out in the ’70s-throwback indie film “Anything That Moves” from filmmaker Alex Phillips, young-and-going-for-it creator of ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up the appeal of Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who made headlines in 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This decision leaves in place ...
Katy O’Brian has tackled lesbian neo-noir and gone full-throttle action, sharing the screen with Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” earlier this year. She also appears in two of the year’s most anticipated films: “Christy,” the true ...
A State Department official, Hawkins Fuller (Erik Nordstrom), meets a young congressional staffer, Tim Laughlin (Logan Wagner), and sparks fly; unfortunately, their chance encounter occurs in Washington, D.C., at the height of Senator Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare in “Fellow Travelers,” ...
The Pittsburgh Equality Center made a dazzling debut with its inaugural Equality Gala on Friday, November 7 at City Winery Pittsburgh, bringing together a radiant cross-section of queer joy, activism, and community glam. With the theme “Bridging the Future,” the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump-era policy banning transgender people from updating the gender markers on their passports to take effect. The decision will cause “irreparable harm,” advocates say. The ruling, issued Thursday, lifts an injunction that had ...
In a groundbreaking win for LGBTQ+ representation and grassroots leadership, Erica Deuso has been elected mayor of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, making her the first openly transgender mayor in our state’s history. Deuso’s campaign drew unprecedented voter turnout in the borough of ...
Political attacks on teaching about gender in colleges and universities are about more than just gender: They are part of a grander project of eroding civil and human rights, limiting personal freedoms and undermining democracy in the name of “traditional” values. On the first ...
On Sunday, November 2, Velum Fermentation transformed into a full-blown queer fantasy with drag royalty in the house for “Another Dinner.” Lexi from RuPaul’s Drag Race and Fantasia Royale Gaga of Dragula fame took the stage, delivering jaw-dropping looks, high ...
Let them eat balls! That’s basically what Trump and his Republican minions are saying about the 40 million people who are about to go hungry in this country. The Trump Administration decided to cut off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), often ...
Pittsburgh Equality Center (PEC) will host a gala this week. The organization will be recognizing its Pittsburgh Equality Award honorees at the event. The organization, formerly known as the Gay Lesbian Community Center (GLCC), was founded in the 1970s and ...
Miles Heizer isn’t one to pretend that stepping into a role completely unlike himself is always easy. The actor — known for projects like “13 Reasons Why,” “Parenthood” and “Love, Simon” — has often played straight young men navigating coming-of-age ...
If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org. For Gen Z adults, the oldest of whom are ...
Updated November 4, 2025, at 8:58 AM. When Jacob (William Hurtado), a pastor’s son, prepares for his drag debut, he faces consequences greater than he imagined in “Rains Over Babel,” a sultry, sexy, and stylish film about an assortment of ...
The Q Archives is a living, breathing digital portal to Pittsburgh’s rich LGBTQ history, finally available to the public, any time, anywhere. This groundbreaking project, a preservation initiative by QBurgh, brings decades of queer publications and photographs out of storage ...
Nearly five months after a disruptive and heavily scrutinized “compliance check” rattled the city’s LGBTQ+ community, P Town Bar has officially received its updated occupancy certificate, bringing closure to a saga that began with trauma and ended in collective triumph. ...
For some in Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ communities, November will bring a harsh and sudden cut to an important safety net supporting people experiencing hunger and food insecurity. As of November 1, according to numbers from Governor Shapiro’s office, nearly two million ...
To know all sides of an issue, it’s important to know and be able to debate an issue with respect. So it should be no surprise that some of my friends are Republicans and others are conservatives. It’s important to ...
Never underestimate audience desire for good-looking rich people falling in love; it’s a tradition as old as movies. And it’s almost certainly one reason for the success of the 2023 Amazon movie “Red, White & Royal Blue.” Based on the ...
More than 100 LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians and allies gathered on the steps of the Pennsylvania State Capitol on Sunday for a statewide march and rally demanding equal rights, protections, and access to affirming healthcare. The event marked the first LGBTQ+ mobilization ...
No Kings. Seven million people across the country took to the streets to remind the Trump Administration and the majority of Republicans who are beholden to Trump that in the U.S. of A. we don’t have kings. We, like, went to war ...
We often think about the City of Pittsburgh whenever it comes to speaking about the politics of our region. But what’s to be said about the smaller, outer suburbs of Allegheny County? These more condensed districts are just as much ...
“We’re filling a niche that there’s demand for and yet there’s no place in Pittsburgh without us creating one.” That’s the ethos behind Pink Pistols Pittsburgh, a new chapter in a national network of LGBTQIA+ gun owners focused on legal, ...
John Waters doesn’t just embrace contradiction — he lives in it. A filmmaker, writer, visual artist and cultural icon, Waters has spent over half a century gleefully blurring the lines between art and filth, good taste and bad, high camp ...
Decades before COVID-19 lockdowns inspired churches to move online, members of Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco delivered cassette recordings of Sunday services to homebound parishioners living with HIV. Now, those recordings have been resurrected. The new podcast When We ...
On October 7, 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Chiles v. Salazar, the case filed by Kaley Chiles. Chiles argues that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapies by licensed medical and mental health professionals is unconstitutional ...
The City of Pittsburgh LGBTQIA+ Commission has issued a scathing rebuke of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s recent decision to slash funding for HIV care and prevention programs. In a statement released October 22, the Commission condemned the cuts as “a ...
But that doesn’t sit well with, you know, fascists. Fascism works best when people don’t oppose it, especially the people who are not yet directly hurt by fascist policies. For example, if you aren’t transgender, don’t know anyone who is ...
On the day of Joey Young’s QBurgh photoshoot at Opya Studios in the South Side, Brian David was, literally and figuratively, serving looks, wheeling in a rack of long, black, zipped-up garment bags, filled with elegant dresses in various shades ...
When Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong met Magnus Hirschfeld in Shanghai during Hirschfeld’s 1931 world tour, their relationship — in which Li accompanied and cared for the famed sexologist across continents and the final years of his life — ...
This November, Pennsylvanians find themselves in yet another historic, unprecedented election. Pennsylvania is just one of seven states to elect every single one of its judges from the magisterial district judges at the local city courthouse all the way up ...
The “Pittsburgh Walk of Fame” was officially unveiled today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Strip District Terminal building, marking the installation of its first ten bronze stars along Smallman Street. The event drew a sizable crowd and featured appearances ...
Russell Tovey has always possessed a low-key magnetism in his work — one that goes beyond his appearance — whether starring in the queer HBO series “Looking” or the dystopian drama “Years and Years.” But in “Plainclothes,” his performance as ...