The expectations of gender, and how those expectations impact each of us, will be explored in Contemporary Craft’s upcoming exhibition, Self, opening Friday, April 14, 2023. The exhibition highlights the work of artists matt lambert and Erika Diamond, who explore ...
The concerted effort to ban books that offend Christian fascist sensibilities rages on across the United States. While I suspect the 2023 numbers will be even higher, 2022 was The Year of Banned Books, according to the American Library Association, ...
Over the last four years, Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation has been providing nimble need-based services to raise health, cultivate joy and connection, and reduce isolation in LGBTQ+ communities in Western PA and beyond. Now, with at least 451 anti-trans and ...
Wendi Miller, owner of the renowned Miller Frame for 50 years, passed away on Thursday, April 6, 2023 at her home. Miller was a trailblazing advocate for the transgender community of Pittsburgh in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Wendi employed ...
Recently the news around Trans rights and visibility has been bleak, with over 400 bills and laws waiting to be passed by various state and local governments to govern our bodies and identities. It was with this in mind that ...
There are many places where you’ve probably seen Matteo Lane — among them, on Netflix’s queer comic showcase “The Comedy Lineup” and on his something-for-everyone Instagram, where he’s been wearing more shirts. This shift happened during the pandemic. Lane tells ...
“Of an Age” lingers languidly over a hot summer day in Melbourne, where practically nothing of consequence happens, except the complete implosion of main character Kol’s (Elias Anton) entire worldview and self-identity. Australian filmmaker Goran Stolevski is already winning prizes ...
Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh is all set to kick off the first season of Stonewall Ultimate Frisbee this spring. The community-based sports league will offer a space for LGBTQ+ individuals and allies to come together and enjoy the game. Registration is ...
In the grand tradition of the Log Cabin Republicans siding with people who hate them, they have asked far-right commentator and self-proclaimed internet troll Isabella Riley Moody to be one of their 2023 Outspoken Ambassadors. LCR describes their ambassadors as ...
This past weekend, Pittsburgh queens Leia Way LeStat and Alexa Van-Cartier won the Ohio National Showgirl pageants. LeStat was crowned Ohio National Showgirl At Large 2023 and Van-Cartier as Ohio National Showgirl 2023. The Ohio National Showgirl pageants are preliminary ...
The Rally and Response to Protect Trans Lives, held in honor of Trans Day of Visibility, at the University of Pittsburgh began on a jovial note, as around 200 folks gathered in the big tent at Schenley Plaza. There were ...
Kit Connor’s had quite a year. The 19-year-old British actor experienced the darker side of internet fandom when he found himself coming out as bisexual after overly entitled internet “fans” with no boundaries demanded that he declare his sexuality or ...
It was LGBTQ+ and Ally night with the Pittsburgh Opera on Saturday with a performance of Il Trovatore at the Benedum Center. A pre-show reception of meeting and mingling was held for LGBTQ opera fans. A portion of ticket purchases ...
In response to the first of a series of transphobic speakers appearing at the University of Pittsburgh, Pitt students and the greater community protested at the Cathedral of Learning in support of trans lives Friday evening. Over 300 people were ...
They say you learn something new every day, and today I learned about Bryson Gray, a rapper (I’m using that word loosely) and social commentator (using these words loosely, too) who just released an Eminem “diss” track called “Like Eminem.” ...
The 42nd season of the Steel City Softball League is now open for registration, accompanied by a fresh new look featuring a brand new logo, updated branding, as well as revised mission and vision statements. To celebrate the new season, ...
1. It is a tough moment to be queer, trans, and nonbinary in the United States. A lot of people in this country are scared right now. I’m talking about those who are afraid of losing their grip on power; ...
It was a gruesome scene at the Blue Moon on Saturday night as Scarlet Fairweather was “murdered” by one of her fellow queens. The suspects: He-Be Buffay, Jamie Lee Coitus, Miss Demeanor, Viivian Spice, Venus Doom, and Wanda Bread. All ...
If you didn’t know who Paul Mescal was before his Academy Award nomination for the film “Aftersun,” or Andrew Scott before his turn as the Hot Priest in “Fleabag,” it’s safe to assume you’ve now had time to incorporate both ...
I’m currently in Florida visiting my sister and my in-laws who live here for some reason. I mean, I know there are good things about Florida. But this state has elected some exceptionally terrible leaders. The people running the state ...
Facts: drag queen story time was invented in 2015 by a woman named Michelle Tea who felt that story time events at libraries were too heteronormative. Another reason was that we needed to get kids back to children’s stories rather ...
Instructed by Hazel Revlon, True T PGH is hosting a Vogue 101 workshop series this month sharing the art of voguing femme with Pittsburgh’s finest. Voguing is a special and unique art form that lives in the underground Ballroom community, ...
It took five “Scream” movies and 25 years before LGBTQ+ horror fans got what the original film only alluded to: full-blown, uncoded queerness. Kevin Williamson, the openly gay screenwriter of Wes Craven’s 1997 slasher satire, pleased many queer fans last ...
It was drag brunch Sunday at The Bridge in East Liberty with Pittsburgh’s First Lady of Drag Kierra Darshell and featuring performances by Georgia Bea Cummings, Jezebel Bebbington D’Opulance, and Boo Barrymore. ...
With Pittsburgh City Councilman Bruce Kraus (District 3 – South Side) retiring at the end of the year, Pittsburgh will be losing LGBTQ representation on City Council. Lita Brillman hopes to change that. Brillman, 27, grew up in Squirrel Hill ...
When is the last time you or one of your queer friends suggested going to a brewery for a fun activity? Has it been a while? Does it happen often? Probably not, right? Going to a brewery just seems like ...
It was a retro gameshow night at the Oaks Theater in Oakmont for the Match Gayme, “Devil Wears Prada” style. Hosted by Joe King with entertainers, impersonators, and drag queens, audience members were chosen as contestants and won prizes such ...
G2H2 Pittsburgh held their monthly happy at August Henry’s Burger Bar on Friday. Photos by G. Michael Beigay. ...
Updated March 22, 2023, at 10:11 am. Three transphobes will be featured at the University of Pittsburgh in the coming weeks. Technically the University itself hasn’t invited these speakers. Two student groups – Pitt Republicans and a chapter of Turning ...
A few years ago my wife, son, and I drove across the country to Yellowstone National Park. We had cell reception the entire trip except in South Dakota where our phones didn’t work at all. Which meant no GPS. Thankfully ...
Last weekend, members of the Pittsburgh leather community welcomed the Empire City Motorcycle Club to a dinner in Bloomfield. The club is one of the nation’s oldest all-riding motorcycle clubs organized by and for gay men. The dinner, held at ...
The Shepherd Wellness Community building in Bloomfield was vandalized with graffiti in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 1. Pittsburgh police believe the suspects, who were caught on security footage, were a man and a woman. “Really is saddening ...
On Zoom, where I recently met with Cara Delevingne, my ’90s-retro, rainbow-speckled button-down was, to my surprise, the first thing that came up. “Nice shirt,” the model-actress told me, gushing when I mentioned picking it out of my closet in ...
JD Davids has long played an important and visible role in the HIV response. He continues to do so today, working at the center of many intersecting issues, including chronic illness, social justice and — as the founder of Strategies ...
Set to debut at the Berlin International Film Festival, “Femme” looks to be the kind of satisfying queer thriller we won’t miss. The neo-noir features rising stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (“Candyman”) and George MacKay (“1917”) locked in an all-too-familiar battle. Stewart-Jarrett ...
At its recent annual meeting, the Allies for Health + Wellbeing Board of Directors welcomed six new members. Dr. Ken Ho, who served on the Allies’ board for nine years, including as vice president, completed his term on the board. ...
I just read an article about the murder of Brianna Ghey, a transgender teenager found stabbed to death in a park in England. As NBC reports, Ghey had “visible stab wounds” and, just in case you didn’t think this story ...
The first time I connected with Shania Twain in 2017, the country-pop music icon didn’t pull any punches, saying “equality should be a no-brainer” as she spoke thoughtfully about her relationship with the LGBTQ+ community. Twain stood firm on that ...
On Saturday, February 25 the Steel City Stonewall Democrats held their annual Endorsement Meeting where members of the Democratic club vote on the candidates to endorse in the spring primary election. Voting is open to all members of the Stonewall ...
Orion Story, of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14, joined Indi Skies, Victoria L Van Cartier, Catty Wampus, Calipso, and Luna Skye for a stunting drag show at Brewer’s on Friday. ...
Things are heating up in the kitchen. Writer and Director Seamus Ricci brings their iconic drag diva, Deep Violet, to Pittsburgh in “La Cucina (the Kitchen)” April 29. Ricci, who has returned to Pittsburgh after attending the University of Essex’s ...
I’m about to do something I really don’t want to do. Something I have known was coming no matter what I did, yet I still tried to ignore it and hope it would go away. And yet, here we are. ...
I’m writing this on Valentine’s Day, and for those romantics out there, I think you’ll appreciate this column. To all others, be warned you’re about to read a column that should be described as full of saccharine. Growing up and ...
In the opening minutes of M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller “Knock at the Cabin,” a little girl named Wen (played by Kristen Cui) is approached by Leonard, a hulking stranger (Dave Bautista), who offers to help her catch grasshoppers while ...
Snow White? I don’t know her. These days, the delicate, demure princesses from the earliest days of Disney films are history, replaced by a more socially progressive kind of young lady royalty that puts leadership and skills first, frilly dresses ...
It was a new take on a classic gameshow at 5801 in Shadyside with Dixie Surewood’s version of the Newlywed Game! Newlyweds, “just datings”, random hookups, and BFFs, battled it out to win prizes during Valentine’s Day Week. Did couples ...
A drag brunch slated to feature Pittsburgh’s Luna Skye and Indi Skies at a Primanti Bros. in Wheeling, West Virginia on February 26 had to be canceled and tickets refunded after threats were sent to the entertainers, Primanti Bros., and ...
It’s 4:00 in the morning and I have to admit, I would much rather be sleeping than writing this column. But sometimes sleep is elusive. Too often, for me, which is not great. Also not great? The word “great.” Conservatives ...