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 ...
Pittsburgh-based LGBTQ+ recording duo SUPA’ NxC has released their newest studio single “CHEEKY”. “While it’s important to have a support system that helps you see and appreciate yourself for everything you are, you must [also] have music that affirms that… ‘CHEEKY’ is ...
It’s time to celebrate Harvest Friendsgiving with Hugh Lane! The Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation is gearing up for the upcoming holiday season with their annual Rainbow Holiday Bag distribution and #HolidaysWithHugh November programming. For the third year, they will be ...
The quote “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minute,” is synonymous with Andy Warhol and his legions of camp-followers and pop-art fanatics. Warhol was obsessed with the idea of celebrity culture, with images of them running on ...
If you’ve been driving around Western Pennsylvania lately you might have heard some crazy radio advertisements spouting misinformation and hate about trans kids and gender-affirming care. It’s all a lie, but it’s one that is gaining traction across the country. ...
Fashion is not usually the first image that comes to mind for those thinking of Pittsburgh. We think bridges, the three rivers, sports teams – for the fashion sense, we think of acid wash jeans and sports paraphernalia, especially Steelers ...
Josh Shapiro has run what has been one of the most flawless campaigns in the history of Pennsylvania politics, one that has been on point with the issues most important to all Pennsylvanians. He has focused on preserving women’s right ...
Allies for Health + Wellbeing recently welcomed Dr. Yijia Li (he/him) to their health services team. Dr. Li will be seeing patients part-time in the Allies clinic. “I did my research back in China on HIV and hepatitis B,” said ...
Things are bustling at both locations of the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation. On a Wednesday afternoon in late October, Sarah Rosso, E.D., a National expert on LGBTQ Child Welfare, was shuttling from the new office of the Hugh Lane Wellness ...
All this talk of authentic representation and, finally, we’re seeing it. In fact, we’re seeing a lot of it in the extremely dramatic new Fox soap-esque series “Monarch.” Here, Gossip frontwoman Beth Ditto, who is proudly fat and queer (and ...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve been inundated with TV ads, those terrible radio ads, Youtube ads, and text messages… please let the text messages stop… you know there is an election on Tuesday, November 8. LGBTQ people ...
The Monster Ball rocked Stage AE on the North Side on Saturday with spooktacular Halloween-inspired performances by local royalty Leia Way LeStat, Akasha L. Van-Cartier, Dixie Surewood, Indi Skies, and Luna Skye and headlining performances by RuPaul’s Drag Race stars ...
We’ve been longing for this moment: John Waters is going to direct a new film for Village Roadshow Pictures. After 2004’s “A Dirty Shame,” we hoped he’d make his long-gestating Christmas movie, “Fruitcake,” that he’d spoken about from time to ...
Hosted at the Manos Gallery in Tarentum, the Queer Family Planning Project held an art auction benefiting LGBTQIA+ folks on their journey to parenthood. The Manos Gallery and Trace Brewing sponsored the auction. The Queer Family Planning Project is a ...
When the NFL’s 2022 season began, just one player, Carl Nassib, identified openly as gay. An outside linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Nassib came out in a video posted to his Instagram account in June 2021, making him the ...
Shepherd Wellness Community commemorated 35 years of service to the HIV+ community last week. In the summer of 1987, four gay men living with AIDS met with Father Lynn Edwards, an Episcopal priest; Bill Brandon, a physician; and Cynthia Klemanski, ...
In the United States, everybody knows that you don’t mess with Texas. That’s because you don’t have to. Texas will undoubtedly mess with you. Honestly, you could just be someone who needs, say, electricity on a regular and reliable basis ...
The Queer Scouts climbed at ASCEND South Side last night. The Queer Scouts is an LGBTQ+ Ascend climbing club, with the goal of creating connection and a safer and more inclusive outdoor sport community. Just look for their Queer Scout mascot, ...
The first thing you should know is that Girl God is hilarious. The second thing you should know is that the tickets for their show at Bottlerocket Social Hall on November 12 are selling faster than quarter condoms in a ...
Think back to your favorite film’s as a child – mainly, those classic Disney films, where Princes and Princesses found each other through true love, prosperity growing throughout the lands and the good eventually winning against evil. Sounds dull, right? ...
Trevor Noah, longtime host of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” says he will leave the show after seven years, opening up an opportunity for a fresh voice to fill that influential role. In a tumultuous political climate where LGBTQ+ ...
According to a study by UCLA’s Williams Institute, 21 percent of LGBTQ people are not registered to vote, a higher percentage than non-LGBTQ people (17 percent). With that in mind, Philadelphia LGBTQ leaders and organizations are working hard to disseminate information and ...
G2H2 Pittsburgh held their October happy hour at Blue Sky Kitchen and Bar in East Liberty. You can connect with G2H2 Pittsburgh on their Facebook page. Photos by G Michael Beigay. ...
A federal judge last month affirmed the legal protections of gender non-conforming workers and workers perceived to be LGBT in Pennsylvania. On Sept. 29, in a 56-page ruling, U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone allowed the lawsuit of Ryan W. ...
It’s been 300 years. Now the witches are back! A very special Sunday drag brunch at 5801 Video Lounge celebrated the original Hocus Pocus movie that has grown to be beloved by the LGBTQ+ Community. Featuring Akasha L. VanCartier as ...
Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Kickball is seeking nominations for a new league commissioner for seasons 2023 and 2024. Both self-nominations and peer nominations are welcome. Applicants should have previous participation in Stonewall Kickball or equivalent and justified experience with the sport and availability ...
5801 Video Lounge held a charity chili cook-off last weekend. Nine local LGBTQ+ non-profits participated, including Allies for Health + Wellbeing, Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation, Proud Haven, Shepherd Wellness Community, the Steel City Pups, Steel City Softball League, Stonewall Bowling, ...
“Not all gay people are nice,” says Bobby Leiber, played by Billy Eichner as the lead character in “Bros,” the new Judd Apatow-produced feature which Eichner also co-wrote and executive produced. As one of Bobby’s many corrective, prescriptive statements, the ...
Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation held their second annual Fall Fest on Saturday for LGBTQ+ youth, families, and seniors. The event included a cookout, drag story time with Akasha L. Van-Cartier, yard games, pumpkin painting, tie-dying, and s’more roasting. You can ...
In the wake of anti-trans advertisements running on at least eight local radio stations, the stations that have continued to run the ads or failed to respond to community criticism have been banned from Pittsburgh Pride 2023 according to organizers. ...
5801 Video Lounge in Shadyside hosted their annual Halloween party, “Nightmare on Hellsworth”, this past Saturday featuring a headlining performance by Angeria Paris VanMichaels of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14. Joining Angeria on stage were amazing local queens Blade Mathews, ...
Updated October 18 at 10:36 am Updated October 17 at 6:36 pm to include additional radio stations. Starting Friday, October 14, 2022, an aggressive anti-trans advertisement campaign began airing on local Pittsburgh radio stations 96.1 Kiss, WAMO 107.3, 102.5 WDVE ...
When you ask about or Google the murders of gay men in Montreal in the ‘90s, it all leads to the podcast “The Village: The Montreal Murders.” LGBTQ advocates encouraged me to listen to the podcast. And with online research, ...
It’s time, really. After decades of queer audiences extracting every bit of subtext from the 1939 classic film, “The Wizard of Oz,” including employing the expression “friend of Dorothy” to describe themselves to uncomprehending straights, and after the monster musical-theater ...
In Iran, Islamic religious police detained Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for wearing her hijab too loosely. Reports say that some of her hair was visible. That is forbidden. Amini died while in custody. Her family says she was beaten. ...
I don’t even ask Lachlan Watson about the Value Village cow onesie until halfway through our interview. But that’s how Watson first appears on Zoom, at one point even standing up to extend their arms out to proudly show off ...
When Urvashi Vaid died at 63 in May 2022 after a valiant fight with breast cancer, thousands of LGBTQ people who had been touched by her decades of activism mourned her passing. Over a half-century of activism that began when ...
I grew up in a house with no privacy. My family didn’t knock on doors, and on the rare occasion when they did, the door was already opening. The constant threat of inspection loomed over my bedroom, under the guise ...
“Oh, I have a study that you’re going to join,” my doctor, Lisa Sterman, MD, MPH, said to me almost flippantly. It was August 27, 2020, and I had gone to see her in San Francisco for my regular checkup. ...
On September 29, Lebo Pride donated and dedicated a tree, a Bracken’s Brown Leaf Magnolia, to the students of Mellon Middle School in Mt. Lebanon. Remarks were given by Lebo Pride Chair Asta Kill, Superintendent Steinhauer, School Board Member Valerie ...
In the assault on reproductive freedom in the United States, there’s one thing I can’t really wrap my brain around. According to the people who claim to be “pro-life,” being a mother is a gift from God; the most esteemed ...
The 37th annual Reel Q: Pittsburgh International LGBTQ+ Film Festival kicked off on Thursday, October 6 with an opening reception and a screening of “In From the Side.” The film festival continues through October 15 with in-person and virtual screenings ...
On Saturday, October 1, 2022, the Mid-Atlantic Emmy® Awards were held in Philadelphia. Among this year’s winners was Joe Wos, host of “Cartoon Academy” which is produced by WQED and airs on PBS affiliates. Joe Wos is also an award-winning contributor ...
iCandy Pittsburgh returned with a night of laughs aboard the Burgh Bus this past Saturday. The Burgh Bus is Pittsburgh’s first and only comedy club on wheels. iCandy Pittsburgh promotes fun LGBTQ parties with comedy, karaoke, dance, and various other ...
On September 28, the Stonewall Alliance Board elected Steve Zanella to the role of Executive Director. Zanella previously served as Commissioner of the Sand Volleyball league for two seasons from 2018 to 2019 and has since served as Board Coordinator in an executive capacity ...
Reel Q, Pittsburgh’s annual LGBTQ+ film festival and one of the oldest LGBTQ+ film festivals in the world, will be hosting the world premiere of Halloween 1987. The film is based on the memoir of Jenny Jae Cory of Towanda, ...
Pride at Work PA honored Attorney General Josh Shapiro with the “Champion of LGBTQ+ Award” at a ceremony on September 29th. It is only the second time the award has been bestowed to a LGBTQ+ advocate or leader. “We are ...
Crush Hour, a monthly happy hour for Pittsburgh’s queer ladies, returned to the Alcove in Green Tree this past Friday with games of darts, pool, beverages, and good food. You can connect and follow Crush Hour on Facebook and Instagram. ...
No one likes to talk about their age. Still, Rich Cummings, founder of Reel Q: the Pittsburgh International LGBTQ Film Festival (then known as Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Series) wants to talk about it. He is looking for folks ...