Chaos, camp and unrestrained power crash through every melodramatic note — and every broken dish — in “The Housemaid.” Amanda Seyfried — beloved by queer audiences for “Mean Girls,” “Mamma Mia!” and “Jennifer’s Body” — hurls objects, loses fingernails and ...
Washington County Gay Straight Alliance (WCGSA) held a 20-year celebration on Saturday, December 6, at the historic George Washington Hotel in Washington, PA. The event began in the lobby with registration, a choice of champagne or a nonalcoholic beverage (orange ...
For the first time since 1988, the federal government failed to recognize World AIDS Day officially. This erasure didn’t happen in a vacuum—it followed a series of targeted actions by the current administration: slashing federal aid, banning diversity initiatives, and ...
Sex scares me. As a teenager, at a time when most young men were starting to physically connect with their new, exciting, primal sexual desires, the blood in my body was flowing through my veins just as fast. There was nothing ...
With the current Administration in the White House, the U.S. Government has been doing the bare minimum required to protect its people, which, according to Rachel Shepherd, Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (PghCHR), “Isn’t enough.” The ...
Every December, Pittsburgh embraces the festive holiday season with Handmade Arcade’s Holiday Market, where attendees shop from more than 290+ makers selling handcrafted clothing, accessories, art, home decor, jewelry, body products, and more unique items you won’t find anywhere else. ...
Millvale’s beloved haunted they-bar, Harold’s Haunt, is calling on the queer community and our rich aunties, bosses, and neighbors to help them survive the financial graveyard that has swallowed too many radical third spaces. They’ve just launched a GoFundMe campaign ...
Coming to you live from the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, this is “Legends & Legacies.” Featuring Kathi Boyle, Stuart Fisk, Tammy Frech, DJ Stemmler, Nachum Golan & Steve Hough, Alan Jones, Clarisse Jordan, Larry Leahy, Michael Neal, Richard Parsakian, Dr. Marty Seltman ...
So Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is resigning from Congress. And yes, I am taking credit for it. In case you’re wondering why she chose to wait until Jan. 5 rather than storm out now, it’s because Greene, age 51, wants ...
Five years ago, QBurgh was born from a simple but powerful idea that Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ community deserves a media platform created by us and for us. Since then, QBurgh has been on the front lines of queer storytelling, documenting local ...
Last night, Pittsburgh crowned its newest drag royalty as Snoozy Q took home the title of Miss P Town in a whirlwind night of glitter, spiders, and at least one Glinda gone rogue. The pageant, held at P Town Bar ...
It’s the holigay season in the ‘Burgh, and queer December is absolutely stacked! Whether you’re looking for some cozy community vibes, a chance to sleigh in your ugliest sweater, sip wine with drag divas, or scream-sing karaoke until the new ...
Content warning: discussions of self-harm. Blake Keineg, a sophomore in the fictional Lafayette High School right outside of the very real city of Pittsburgh, is struggling. Since his father hopped into the car and drove off one night, Blake’s suicidal ...
For the first time in nearly four decades, the U.S. government will not formally recognize World AIDS Day on December 1 in a move that has sparked outrage among public health advocates and LGBTQ+ communities. According to an internal email ...
Originally published by our partners at The19th on November 24, 2025. In 2016, anti-LGBTQ+ extremists broke into the apartment of Bangladesh’s only LGBTQ+ magazine editor, Xulhaz Mannan, and murdered him and friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy. Tara Asgar was there, but she managed ...
Dear Community, Together, we have rallied to support our trans siblings, our non-binary and gender non-conforming identities, with special recognition to all people of color. Let’s all continue this fight and more. I am asking you for one more fight. ...
On a recent episode of the hilarious podcast “Las Culturistas,” hosted by comedian Matt Rogers and “SNL” cast member Bowen Yang, guest Jennifer Lawrence dropped the bomb: she and Emma Stone are producing a Miss Piggy movie, one that will ...
The Oakland neighborhood just got a little more colorful and a lot more welcoming. On Tuesday, local officials, developers, and community members gathered to cut the ribbon on Mosaic Apartments, a newly opened 48-unit affordable housing complex intentionally designed to ...
BREAKING OVERNIGHT: After months of silence and mounting community pressure, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has filed a formal response to the federal government’s subpoena demanding the medical records of hundreds of trans youth. In an amicus brief filed late ...
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 ...