What would the end of the year be without a look back at the best and worst of our community in 2022? Let’s make one thing clear: I am completely biased. With well over 40 years of community service, I’ve ...
Brewer’s Bar on Liberty Avenue is the oldest standing gay bar in Pittsburgh and, in 2022, they are continuing their long-standing tradition of serving Christmas dinner and distributing gifts to all who come through their doors this evening. Photos courtesy ...
The big news is, of course, that “Dear Evan Hansen” star Ben Platt and “The Good Doctor” star Noah Galvin, friends for years, then a couple, have gotten engaged, so congratulations to them. But the two are also helping to ...
The Pittsburgh Area Naturists (PAN) are dropping their drawers to go bowling, answer trivia questions, and sing Karaoke. They are doing everything they can in the buff in and out of Pittsburgh. The Naturist organization hosts monthly naked karaoke, called ...
2022 has been quite the doozy of a year, and for some of us, the holiday season can be incredibly hard. If inflation wasn’t enough, some of us just don’t have a safe space where we can run to during ...
When Brendan Fraser’s character Charlie first appears in director Darren Aronofsky’s new film “The Whale,” he is masturbating to gay porn. Shown first as an anonymous shape sitting on a couch, Charlie is circled by the camera tentatively, as if it’s ...
Novelist John Rechy wrote in the 1970’s, “To me, the drag queen is one of the main heroes (or heroines) of the gay world. The courage required for her merely to step out on the street in drag is perhaps ...
Rich Cummings is beginning research on a second documentary about the LGBTQ history of Pittsburgh. The working title for the film is “Disposable Lives” and the film will concern itself with murders in the Pittsburgh LGTBQ community. Cases that will ...
Note: An attorney for the Club Q shooting suspect in an initial statement identified the shooter as non-binary and used they/them pronouns. However, in all subsequent statements and filings, the attorney now uses “he/him” pronouns. There are a lot of ...
“What do you like about your body?” That’s typically one of the first questions that therapist, life coach, author, PrEP promoter, and longtime HIV activist Damon L. Jacobs asks his guests on his YouTube show, “Tub Talks With Damon L. ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins celebrated the LGBTQ+ Community with their third annual Pride game on Monday, December 12 at PPG Paints Arena. The game also served as a fundraiser for the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation and the You Can Play Project. ...
Updated December 12, 2022, at 7:40 AM President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law this afternoon at a ceremony at the White House. The bill, while notably missing the national requirement of the Obergefell Supreme Court decision, ...
A new queer-owned children’s bookstore is committed to providing books for everyone. No matter your sexuality, gender, race, or religion – the people at Stories Like Me will help you find a book that you relate to. Helen Campbell, the ...
Rick Allison has been pulling balls at OUTrageous Bingo for 25 years. The monthly institution that Allison helped to start with Alan Jones in 1997 has been supporting the Shepherd Wellness Community and the PGH Equality Center (then-known-as the Gay ...
In early 2022, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez made history as the first openly trans actor to win a Golden Globe, an award she earned for her role in “Pose.” Nearly a year later and she’s yet to properly celebrate that groundbreaking ...
The Pittsburgh Tigers, Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ hockey team, hosted an open skate and beginner-friendly scrimmage game at the Hunt Armory on Saturday in partnership with the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Pittsburgh Penguins Pride Night game is tomorrow, Monday, December 12 at 7:00 ...
State Representative Jessica Benham (D – South Side Slopes and Hill Top Neighborhoods) has been named as co-chair of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus. Benham and fellow co-chair State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta (D – Philadelphia) are both ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins will celebrate the LGBTQ+ community as they host their third annual Pride Game on Monday, December 12 at PPG Paints Arena at 7:00 PM. Penguins players will tape their sticks for pre-game warmups with rainbow Pride Tape, ...
The PGH Equality Center and the First United Methodist Church hosted a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening for the victims of the Club Q shooting in November and for all victims who have experienced the current raise in anti-LGBTQ+ hate and ...
Allies for Health + Wellbeing is seeking the next class of “Bright Young People” to be honored at its annual Allies Ball and Free For All, set for Friday, May 26, 2023. Introduced at the 2022 event, the Bright Young ...
The Renaissance City Choir held its annual holiday concert, billed as “Holiday Greetings & Gay Happy Meetings,” on Saturday at the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. The Renaissance City Choir is Western Pennsylvania’s only LQBTQIA+ choral group. You can connect with ...
You’ve been treated to Gabrielle Union setting it on fire in the recently released queer drama, “The Inspection.” Meanwhile, as the activist stepmom to her transgender child, she’s also become a super ally of the LGBTQ+ community. Now she and ...
Let’s take a trip in the way-back machine to “Saturday Night Live” in the late 1970s. Specifically to the recurring skit featuring The Coneheads, a family of aliens with giant bald heads shaped like, you guessed it, cones. Dan Aykroyd ...
Hosted by AIDS Free Pittsburgh, Allies for Health + Wellbeing, Central Outreach Wellness Center, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Pitt Men’s Study, QBurgh, Reel Q, and Shepherd Wellness Community hosted the World AIDS Day memorial service on December 1. ↓ More ...
Pennsylvania Governor-Elect Shapiro and Lieutenant Governor-Elect Davis this week announced their Inaugural Committee. Of those tapped to help plan the Governor’s inauguration are community members Michele Kessler, who is Secretary-Treasurer of UFCW Local 1776 in Philadelphia, and Jeff Freedman, co-creator ...
The brand new QMNTY Center (pronounced Q – munity) held its grand opening and ribbon cutting on December 1 at the new center on East Ohio Street in the North Side. The QMNTY Center is a partnership between Proud Haven ...
As always, you can find even more LGBTQ events on our community calendar. ...
Ugly Christmas Sweaters were everywhere at the Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Bowling league’s friends and family night of games at the AMF Noble Manor Lane last night. You can connect with and learn more about the Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Bowling League ...
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill designed to protect same-sex and interracial marriages. The vote was 61-36 with 12 Republicans joining all of the Senate Democrats in supporting its passage. “For millions of ...
When F. Scott Fitzgerald mused that there are no second acts in American life, state Rep. Brian Sims had not yet been born. As one of the first out, gay members of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, Democrat Sims represented Philadelphia’s 182nd District ...
Riele Downs, who for six years starred on the popular Nickelodeon series “Henry Danger,” is all grown up now and is headlining the supernatural teen comedy “Darby and the Dead.” She plays a teenager who can see dead people and ...
We’ve all been to a place like Club Q. An unassuming place tucked into a strip mall that doesn’t look like much from the outside but offers a safe haven for LGBTQ+ people and allies inside. A place where people ...
World AIDS Day 2022 will have a new location and new partners. The Pitt Men’s Study, in collaboration with Shepherd Wellness Community, Central Outreach Wellness Center, Allies for Health + Wellbeing, AIDS Free Pittsburgh, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, and QBurgh will ...
The “Classic Lily” tab on Lily Tomlin’s official website — noted as “the world’s only” — is, today, barely operational. It looks like it was created at the dawn of the internet and never updated. The reason for this might ...
The holidays are near, and it’s time to start thinking about gifts for your friends, family, and loved ones — including the furry ones. When shopping for your pet, it’s easy to grab treats and toys. However, this year, dog ...
Did you ever dream of being a princess when you were a kid? Of course you did. Well now is your chance to see the real royals in action with Disney Princess – The Concert at the Benedum Center on ...
TransYouniting hosted a Transgender Day of Remembrance service on Sunday at the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation. Honor our unknown dead, We love and honor you who have died that we do not know.Our Trans siblings whose names and faces remain ...
This story is developing. A mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub has left five dead and 18 injured. The shooting occurred around 11:50 pm at Club Q in Colorado Springs on Academy Boulevard, an LGBTQ nightclub. The shooter, ...
Originally published by the Pittsburgh Independent. Pittsburgh’s pop art prince is off to Al-’Ula. The Royal Commission for Al-‘Ula and Arts AlUla this week announced Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum will bring “Fame: Andy Warhol in AlUla” to the Maraya art gallery for ...
The Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) is piloting an at-home chlamydia and gonorrhea testing program to determine the value of more accessible at-home STD testing for residents, if added to the department’s service offerings. Starting November 9, at-home tests became ...
As a young gay man, I always felt that if you were gay, you could only live in two cities: Los Angeles or New York City. No questions asked, it was as simple as that. You had to endure the ...
Urgent, timely, crucial. As we find ourselves thrust into the post-Roe era, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June to overturn the constitutional right to abortion established by the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling, it’s impossible not to use ...
G2H2 held their November happy hour at Brewer’s on Friday, November 11. You can connect with G2H2 on their Facebook page. Photos by G. Michael Beigay. ...
In June 2021, Rep. Dan Frankel, (D-Allegheny), introduced House Bill 300, known as the Fairness Act. With 75 cosponsors, the bill called for amending the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act to include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity in order ...
In writer-director Todd Field’s latest film, “Tár,” there’s a sense of intoxication in play, an air of fascination in the treatment of his leading character as a kind of monument — albeit one shadowed with foreboding. The film introduces Cate ...
There might not have been a red wave in the midterms, but there certainly was a rainbow wave. There are so many takeaways from the midterms on what drove the result. Mainstream media is fixated on how poorly Republicans did, ...
Dan Levy’s feature directorial debut has a title, a cast, and a home at Netflix. The “Schitt’s Creek” Emmy winner has written “Good Grief” and will direct it for the streaming service as well as star, alongside “Loving” Oscar nominee ...
Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Kickball held their end-of-season, tournament-style playoffs on Sunday to close out the Fall 2022 season of kickball. “100% That Pitch” took home the championship. You can connect with Stonewall Spots Pittsburgh and all of their leagues on ...
Pittsburgh made history again by electing Summer Lee to Congress to represent Pennsylvania’s 12 Congressional District, which includes all of the City of Pittsburgh and most of southeastern Allegheny County. Lee is the first Black congresswoman elected from Pennsylvania. In ...