Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Kickball hosted their seasonal friends and family games on Sunday, April 24. Music, pizza, and beverages were available during a beautiful, sunny day of 14 games. Central Outreach Wellness was on hand to support the league and ...

Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation partners with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott The Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation has now partnered with Eckert Seasmans Cherin & Mellott for aid in providing transgender, non-binary and gender expansive individuals with pro bono services, to ...

As YouTube, social media, and self-released music platform Bandcamp grew in popularity, musicians could create music and garner followings from their own bedrooms: hence “bedroom pop” was born, and so was the career of UK-born, 23-year-old singer/songwriter/producer Robin Skinner (he/they), ...

I get a lot of texts from Donald Trump these days. OK, not from him, but from his campaign. I got one today that asked me to take a survey. Sure! I love surveys.  The first question was about Disney ...

Loved it, hated it, hate-watched it, whatever you did when “And Just Like That…” dropped its magically post-COVID earnestness and fresh Balenciaga bags into your life, well, you’ll get to do it all over again when the series returns for ...

The Stonewall Alliance, the non-profit responsible for the Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh programs, is seeking a new Executive Director. View the full list of responsibilities and qualifications and apply below. Stonewall Alliance, Inc. is a Pittsburgh-based, volunteer-run, non-profit LGBTQ+ and Ally ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Tuesday afternoon the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed HB 972, a bill that bans transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ and women’s school sports. After nearly two hours of debate, the roll call vote was ...

The Mattress Factory has announced a new spring 2022 event series and the launch of an online finding aid to celebrate the work of Greer Lankton, a significant and underrecognized artist in the radical art scene of New York City’s East Village during ...

The Pittsburgh Pirates are teaming up with local LGBTQ organizations for their annual Pride night game on June 17. The Pride night game will be against the San Francisco Giants at 7:05 PM Friday, June 17. The first 2,000 fans ...

Alone in the desert, three men, wearing nothing but thongs, move in cat-cow stretches on a blanket for nearly two minutes. Tour cities are read in a faint tone that, as the vintage video progresses, grows weirder and more chilling, ...

Well, he signed it. Just like everyone expected. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. And not only did he sign it, but he signed it at Classical Preparatory School, a charter school in Florida, surrounded by ...

Over the past six weeks, Ukraine has become the focal point of international attention as it pushes back on Russian military aggression while enduring the hardships that war inflicts on combatants and civilians. In the images depicting the effects of ...

Presbyterian SeniorCare and partner Affirmative Investments have chosen a design for their proposed LGBTQ senior housing development in Oakland being called “Oakland Pride.” Rothschild Doyno Collaborative, a Strip District-based design firm, was chosen to create the design. The proposed design ...

A Muslim-raised, queer artist explores a tenuous connection with his mother through an ancient Greek text in Adil Mansoor’s Amm(i)gone. Mansoor said, “My mother found out I was gay on Google.” The playwright and performer had acquired a long-reaching internet presence. ...

There’s an important issue in the community and around the country that many of us don’t understand fully, and it involves members of our trans community participating in sports. It’s been so misreported in the mainstream media that even fellow ...

There still aren’t enough trans actors in Hollywood, but at least there’s Patti Harrison. Harrison is currently starring in the big blockbuster rom-com caper “The Lost City,” alongside Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, as the social media manager of Bullock’s ...

I’m writing this on the first day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nomination for the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman ever to serve as a Supreme Court ...

March 31 is the internationally recognized day of Transgender visibility. With the coordinated campaign of hate attacking our trans brothers and sisters, this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility is even more important. Join TransYouniting, Proud Haven, TransPride Pittsburgh, True T, ...

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania’s version of an anti-trans youth bill was advanced from the Pennsylvania House Education Committee. The bill that would ban trans youth from participating in school sports leagues from kindergarten through college now proceeds to the full Pennsylvania ...

Right now, in Ukraine, transgender people are forced to go without their prescribed hormones. “Pharmacies are out of stock of pretty much everything,” said Lenny Emson, executive director of KyivPride, a non-governmental organization in Ukraine’s capital city. Emson is bigender ...

A bill introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives by State Representative Barbara Gleim (R, Cumberland County) to ban trans youth from school sports teams is scheduled for a vote in the House Education Committee on Tuesday morning. The bill, ...

Transgender icon Eddie Izzard is currently shooting “Doctor Jekyll,” a modern retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and this new version will incorporate Izzard’s own trans identity. She’ll be playing ...

After a second hiatus from pulling the balls due to the omicron variant, OUTrageous Bingo announced the return of more games on April 23. Tickets for the April 23 OUTrageous Bingo held at Rodef Shalom are on sale now! OUTrageous ...

Pittsburgh’s First Lady of Drag, Kierra Darshell, is proud to present the 4th Miss Tri-State All-Star Newcomer (TSAS) Pageant on Sunday, March 27 at the Greer Cabaret Theater. This must-see pageant will feature drag queens from the tri-state area competing ...

As a woman, I know what it feels like to be invisible. As a Black woman that feeling is sometimes intensified. It gets juxtaposed with occasionally being the person everyone is looking at, but not really seeing. In a time of ...

What could Joe “Tiger King” Exotic and fictional genderqueer arthouse punk-rocker Hedwig Robinson possibly have in common? John Cameron Mitchell. And so, the Farrah Fawcett wig comes off the 58-year-old actor who created Hedwig and brought her Off-Broadway in 1998, ...

Updated: April 22, 2022 at 12:08 pm The Pittsburgh Pride Group, a consortium of LGBTQ+ Community organizations led by TransYouniting, announced its lineup of Pittsburgh Pride events for Pride month starting June 2, 2022. Too Hot for July! Thursday, June ...

Updated March 19, 2022, at 4:28 PM On March 4, 2022, the leaders of the LGBTQ communities across Pennsylvania endorsed Attorney General Josh Shapiro and State Representative Austin Davis for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, respectively. Representative Brian Sims, an openly ...

On January 14,  Alan Jones retired from Allies for Health + Wellbeing after 30 years of service. He was the longest-serving staff member.  So much has changed in the past few decades and Jones has seen it all.  Until September ...

Shepherd Wellness Community announced that they would be resuming in-person Friday dinners, which haven’t been held in over two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Friday dinners will resume on April 8, 2022. Read the full announcement from Shepherd Wellness ...

Luca Guadagnino (“Call Me By Your Name”) has his next project lined up. “Challengers,” from a script by newcomer Justin Kuritzkes, and starring Zendaya (“Euphoria”), Mike Faist (“West Side Story”) and Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”), drops its three leads into ...

Kerri Colby, of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14, was seen all across town this weekend! She was spotted at 5801 Video Lounge, Donny’s Leather Central, Lucky’s, Rock Bottom, P Town, and more. Luna Skye and Indi Skies with S&S Productions ...

Friday, high school and middle school students in Pittsburgh participated in a walkout as part of a national student movement in response to the recent series of anti-LGBTQ laws across the country. “The idea was actually brought forward by a ...

Former Pittsburgh assistant police chief Larry Scirotto has been fired from his new role as Chief of Police in Fort Lauderdale after an internal investigation alleges that he focused too much on the diversity of the department. Scirotto, who is ...

Texas and Florida continue competing in their race to be named The Worst State in the U.S. It’s an absolutely exhausting display of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, especially exhausting for LGBTQ+ people and their families. People are under enough stress, damn it. ...

Australian politician, Jay Weatherill, once said, “You don’t get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.” Lyam Gabel’s newest production, the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table is asking the tough questions to unite the ...

SisTers PGH is hiring an Administrative Assistant. The deadline to apply is Monday, March 14, and can be done by emailing a resume and cover letter to info@sisterspgh.org. Review the full job description below.  Sisters Pgh is looking for a ...

You can probably chalk this up to the current online “Wordle” craze, but America’s most famous drag queen, RuPaul, is about to crash CBS’s primetime lineup with an updated version of the vintage ’80s series “Lingo.” After multiple iterations of ...

Twenty years ago this past month, Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ Community suddenly and shockingly lost a beloved member. Jamie Lynn Stickle had moved to the city to live with her long-term girlfriend. She took up bartending at Downtown gay & lesbian clubs, ...

Updated March 4, 2022 at 11:07 am. Thursday, over 40 LGBTQ+ leaders from across Pennsylvania endorsed Attorney General Josh Shapiro and State Representative Austin Davis for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The endorsement comes from a diverse group of LGBTQ+ leaders, including public officials, leaders ...

In QBurgh’ s continuing effort to bring you personal accounts on how gay life was in Pittsburgh we are very proud to have an excerpt from Ronald Lawrence’s upcoming book, “Reflections of a Warrior Therapist.” It describes the experience that a gay ...

With the war in Ukraine rightfully dominating the news cycle, it is easy to miss the devastating attacks on trans kids happening in our backyard. Over the last few weeks, extremists have pushed some of the deadliest legislation targeting LGBTQ ...

Jim and Jason are back talking about all the things that have started off 2022 for the LGBTQ Community, both good and bad. Pittsburgh Pride is just around the corner! Pre-order your copy of the QBurgh Pride Guide magazine to ...

The Steel City Stonewall Democrats held their annual spring endorsement meeting Sunday at P Town in Oakland. Along with the endorsement of the following candidates in the spring Democratic Primary, the membership elected C. Lee Hill to lead the organization ...

Leslie Jordan and Cheyenne Jackson, co-stars in the Fox multicam sitcom “Call Me Kat,” are in separate locations on Zoom, tenderly admiring each other. As an openly gay actor, Jackson (“30 Rock” and “All Shook Up,” his first lead role ...

The school banned a book today, we’re not allowed to read it.I never wanted to read it before, but now I simply need it!The school banned the book because a senator was upset.I’m not sure what upset them, but it’s ...