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, ...
It’s always a pleasure to walk along Brookline Boulevard, and experiencing it festooned in Pride flags made it even more fun. The neighborhood’s inaugural Pride was on Saturday, September 12, and most of the open businesses, if not all, joined ...
You loved them in the ’90s — or you weren’t born in the ’90s but you still love them because you’re queer and it’s the law — and now Romy and Michele are set to return. In 1997, “Romy & ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify There’s something about September that feels like everybody is finding their places again. Students are settled back on campus. Fall leagues are underway. Calendars are filling up. The evenings arrive a little earlier, and summer already ...
The 2026 annual Backyard Docs Film Festival, formerly known as the Rust Belt & Appalachia Documentary Film Festival, celebrates documentary films and filmmakers directly connected to our region. Backyard Docs Film Festival has become an annual celebration of non-fiction cinema. ...
From the Brinton Road Overpass, Lucinda Beattie has only a few seconds to reach each driver passing below. So the message has to be big. Once a week, Beattie and a small group stand above the traffic holding banners that turn ...
Twenty-five years. For those old enough to remember September 11, 2001, that number can feel almost impossible. The television screens. The confusion. The silence that fell over classrooms and offices. The phone calls to people we loved. But September 11 ...
Twelve Pennsylvania organizations are calling on the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association to clarify its policies regarding transgender student-athletes, warning that confusion surrounding recent court decisions and federal actions could lead schools to unlawfully discriminate against trans students. The organizations sent ...
The Steel City Softball League’s own Gracie Lou Freebushes proudly represented Pittsburgh at the International Pride Softball (iPride) Gay Softball World Series in Columbus, Ohio. This year’s tournament made history, bringing together 56 cities, 256 teams, and 4,200 athletes competing ...
The Log Cabin Republicans is an absolutely worthless organization. Actually, they’re worse than worthless because they gleefully help to advance the Republican anti-queer agenda. So of course they’re anti-trans now. In an Aug. 20 piece published on Town Hall, LCR President ...
At this point, performing on a national stage is second nature to Adam Lambert, who shot to fame 17 years ago during the eighth season of “American Idol” in 2009. Just six months later, Lambert went on to release his ...
There’s been something troubling me for the last couple of years about what the Trump administration has been doing. It affects me personally, but I’ve mostly kept it in the back of my mind. After all, there are so many ...
The City of Pittsburgh has dropped Prospect Drive in Schenley Park, the longtime queer gathering place known as the “Fruit Loop,” from consideration for a new Department of Public Works maintenance facility. Mayor Corey O’Connor’s administration announced the decision in ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify Well, here we are. Labor Day weekend has arrived, which means we’ve reached that unofficial little line between summer and whatever comes next. The pools are closing. The students are back. The sun is setting earlier. ...
Here’s the thing nobody’s obituary is going to lead with, so I will: Dolly Parton picked up the phone for queer press. Not just the glossies with the biggest circulation — she talked to a small LGBTQ+ paper the same way she ...
LGBTQ+ adults are more likely than other adults to miss healthcare appointments due to cost or other reasons — with a third reporting their health worsened as a result, according to a new survey by health policy research group KFF. ...
Updated September 3, 2026 at 7:33 pm. MONROEVILLE, Pa. — The controversy surrounding the removal of a Pride display from the Monroeville Public Library earlier this year is expanding beyond the display itself, as residents call for a formal code ...
Sometimes, finding your people starts with a place to hang out, study, or make a bracelet. QBurgh’s Kalliyan Winder visited the University of Pittsburgh’s Rainbow Alliance to learn how the LGBTQ+ student group helps students build community while navigating college ...
Local activist Kits Blanc, the Endo King and QMNTY Center’s Spark King, is waging a battle against endometriosis as an Endo Warrior. The trans man is fighting against a disease that is most often, but not exclusively, tied to gender ...
Come on in, the water’s fine. Wade into it up to your ankles, your calves, your waist, you’ll be okay. You’ll adjust to the waves that swirl around you so come on, dive in, it’s all good. As in the new ...
Today, a person living with HIV will have the same lifespan as someone without the virus if they start treatment early enough and stay on it. Yet pernicious myths hold sway about who HIV affects and what it means to ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify Well, babes. We made it to the last day of August. Summer isn’t technically over, but we all know what’s happening. Campuses are full again. The evenings are getting shorter. Somewhere in Pittsburgh, a decorative pumpkin ...
What did your LGBTQ+ community — or your local or state government — do to recognize our community as part of America’s 250th birthday? That 250th birthday belongs to us as much as it belongs to anyone else. After all, ...
Pennsylvania has joined 22 other states in challenging new Trump administration conditions on federal family-planning grants that target transgender-inclusive programs and diversity, equity and inclusion practices. The lawsuit, filed August 27, challenges requirements attached to the next round of Title ...
Get ready to soak up the last rays of summer for a great cause! Washington County Gay-Straight Alliance, Inc. (WCGSA) is hosting its “Gayer Than a Picnic Basket” fundraiser on Saturday, September 5, 2026, at the Washington Park Stone Pavilion. Running from ...
A recent New York Times opinion piece titled “Cutting Your Parents Off Isn’t the Answer” has resulted in a lot of chatter by people I follow on Bluesky about whether or not queer people who aren’t accepted by their parents or other ...
I remember as a baby lesbian that I wanted to read more books with sapphic characters like me, but a lot of the sapphic books at the time when I came out were more realistic fiction taking place in our ...
The City of Pittsburgh is planning a new Department of Public Works maintenance facility along Prospect Drive in Schenley Park, putting a new municipal building in an area with generations of LGBTQ history. The City issued a request for proposals ...
Around the time the pandemic was heating up, Crystal McKee noticed something alarming at the clinic at Allies for Health + Wellbeing. “I noticed there were African American young males who were testing positive,” said McKee, PrEP navigator for Allies. ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify Okay, Pittsburgh. Who turned on fall? Students are back on campus, the mornings suddenly have a little chill to them, and for the first time in months, stepping outside doesn’t immediately feel like walking into soup. ...
This story was originally reported by Brooke Migdon of The 19th. Supportive teachers can make a world of difference for transgender students, influencing their sense of safety and academic engagement — often in the face of discrimination and bullying — according to ...
Longtime Butler County resident Susan Collier said she wasn’t completely surprised that voters chose a Democrat over a Republican in a recent special election — even in this traditionally red area. “I think people are frustrated at the top, and ...
Allegheny County recorded the fewest new HIV diagnoses in its history in 2025, a major public health milestone shaped by decades of HIV activism, expanded access to prevention and testing, and advances in treatment. According to newly released data from ...
August is like New Years; just hear me out. The majority of the world appears to be on vacation, school starts over again, and according to F. Scott Fitzgerland, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall”, ...
I opened my phone to a screenshot from a little birdie: My ex had hard-launched his new boyfriend on Instagram. I think they call it a “hard launch” because it’s hard to look at. Which it was, at first. The ...
Rosie O’Donnell is back in the United States after moving to Ireland shortly after Trump was elected for the second stupid time. She was on the cover of People magazine, has a one-woman show called “Common Knowledge” that she’s performing on Broadway ...
Now that Netflix’s queer teen romance “Heartstopper” has ended, breakout star Kit Connor is leaping into new projects. First there was the Alex Garland film “Warfare,” and soon the “Elden Ring” film adaptation, but the big news of the moment ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify There’s something about late August that feels like a beginning and an ending at the same time. Summer is still hanging on, but all across Pittsburgh, dorm rooms are filling up, moving trucks are unloading, and ...
Moving to a brand new city can be just as overwhelming as it is exciting. Whether you’re unpacking in a dorm room at Pitt, starting graduate school at Carnegie Mellon, or heading to Point Park University from across the country, ...
How do you define “child” when you’re a queer boy who can’t carry one but wants to anyway? Growing up, Joseph Osmundson loved the women in his life so much he could imagine fully stepping into their nurturing roles. Like ...
Uncovered messages obtained by QBurgh show Councilman Bill Krut demanded that Municipal Manager Alex Graziani order the Monroeville Public Library Pride display removed before Pride Month ended, invoked anticipated support of three other council members, and received confirmation after Graziani ...
Linda Perry has spent most of her career behind the curtain — and she’s built an empire there. She wrote “Beautiful” and handed it to Christina Aguilera. She has worked with Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys, Miley Cyrus, Adele — one ...
Updated August 13, 2026 at 2:44 pm. As Wendy Pashman entered 420 Pressley St. in the Deutschtown Historic District, she was struck by the large, heavy double front doors and welcoming vestibule, the high ceilings throughout, and the woodwork underneath ...
The Trump administration is backing away from its attempt to obtain private medical records connected to young transgender patients who received gender-affirming care through UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to voluntarily dismiss its ...
When I was in elementary school, my twin sister and I played in a youth soccer league. We were the only girls on an otherwise all-boys team. Now, I don’t know how or why this happened. I do not know ...
Updated August 11, 2026 at 2:52 pm. An estimated 200 LGBTQ+ people and allies took to the Youghiogheny River Sunday for Pittsburgh’s 4th Annual Big Gay River Float, continuing the growth of the free community event while introducing new ways ...
The Steel City Softball League (SCSL), Pittsburgh’s queer softball league, recently concluded its 45th season with its playoffs held at Dan Isaac fields in West Mifflin. This year, the league was divided into three divisions to ensure safety, fairness, ...
advertisement Listen on Spotify Sometimes joy arrives with fireworks, a packed dance floor, or hundreds of people marching down the street. And sometimes it’s much quieter. It’s sitting around a fire with people who understand you. It’s painting one tiny ...