Remember when Donald Trump won the 2016 election and his supporters called Hillary Clinton voters sore losers for their outrage and disgust? And then, when Trump lost the 2020 election his supporters threw a deadly temper tantrum, storming the U.S. ...
As I get older, I’m actively trying to set healthy boundaries. Those Instagram self-help accounts finally got to me. I recently saw a reel on Instagram that perfectly illustrated how boundaries can improve your life. Think of yourself as a ...
The first thing Pierre Jean Gonzalez is going to do when he arrives in Pittsburgh is run. Getting lost is his favorite way to immerse himself in a new city. Pittsburgh will be his eighth city since August touring the ...
As I write this, COVID-19 has killed over 900,000 people in the United States. It’s a hell of a number. 900,000 deaths in just a couple of years, and that’s likely an undercount. The COVID-19 pandemic is the deadliest mass ...
The recent news of a woman who was cured of HIV through a stem cell transplant to treat cancer is a promising development in HIV/AIDS research, according to Allies for Health + Wellbeing. Allies, formerly the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, ...
Today, Pride on the Shore announced their long-anticipated headliners and lineup for the event this June for Pride. Headlining the main stage will be Grammy award nominee Jessie J, a global vocal powerhouse sensation and songwriter, selling more than 20 ...
There has been little to no time wasted by Mayor Ed Gainey since his historic win as Pittsburgh’s first Black mayor. And with a historic win, Gainey is shaping the cultural landscape of the City for an arguably equally historic ...
The New Hazlett Theater is thrilled to premiere pop culture phenomenon Princess Jafar’s interactive game show, The Princess Is Right!, on February 17. Written and performed by Princess Jafar, Pittsburgh’s iconic Queer Arab cartoon princess villain, The Princess Is Right! ...
It may be Valentine’s Day but all eyes are turned toward the warmer weather, sunshine, and rainbows of Pride. QBurgh’s printed Pride Guide with all the details on EVERYTHING PRIDE will come out in May but here are some details ...
Ivory Aquino makes history in ‘Batgirl’ for DC Ivory Aquino has been cast in the HBO Max feature film “Batgirl” as Alysia Yeoh. In the DC comic book series Yeoh is Barbara Gordon/Batgirl’s best friend, and she is also transgender. ...
Great news, everyone! “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust, is a bestseller 30 years after it was first published! In the book, Spiegelman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. It ...
Jelly Fish PGH (Feb. 12th, 9:30pm @ P-Town) One of Pittsburgh’s most sought-after, queer-inclusive dance parties is back this Saturday, February 12th, 2022 starting at 9:30pm that evening. The event, hosted by Ricky Moslen, Stephanie Tsong and Adam Shuck, will ...
Before I talk to Jonathan Van Ness about their new Netflix show, “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness,” they take me on a little on-camera adventure that involves them “needing cuter light.”They do a 180 with the computer. They swivel ...
Eleven Pittsburgh-based companies received perfect scores on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index which measures corporations’ inclusive, equitable policies and environments for their LGBTQ+ employees. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Community Care Behavioral Health Organizartion, Giant Eagle Inc, Highmark, ...
It’s 2022 but you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking we’re taking a few steps backward with school boards, parents, and politicians from Texas to Florida banning hundreds of books from schools and libraries that trigger their straight fragility. In states ...
A wise man once said, “What a stupid son of a bitch.” And that wise man was President Joe Biden, talking about Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy. I have watched the video several times because this particular moment ...
Bridget Everett is surrounded by queer people in her everyday life. She’s got queer friends, queer family, queer fans –– the latter of which she courted while performing her alt-cabaret (alt as in she’s been known to sing about buttholes ...
Shepherd Wellness Community is seeking applicants for the role of Coordinator of Administration starting at $17.50 an hour. Cover letters and resumes can be submitted through Indeed by February 15, 2022. Full job description below: The Shepherd Wellness Community is ...
The Three Rivers Business Alliance, Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, joined by the Keystone Business Alliance (Philadelphia) and Independence Business Alliance (Harrisburg), representing the three Pennsylvania affiliated chambers of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, expressed their disappointment with the ...
Writing and directing for the first time in his filmmaking career, Antonio Marziale didn’t make “Starfuckers,” which he also acts in, with the intention of it being among the short films to premiere at Sundance this year. But on Jan. ...
Not sure if you know this, but I am a big fan of heavy metal music. It’s not the only music I like, but it’s the music I like the best. In fact, soon after Trump’s election, I turned to ...
Washington PA Gay Straight Alliance – Bowling Night WCGSA presents a Free Bowling Night at Alpine Club Lanes in Washington PA on Friday, January 28th, 2022, from 7:00pm-10:00pm. The event will be held for participants 18 and younger, with parents’ ...
Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett (fun fact: she was the first actor in history to win an Academy Award for portraying another Academy Award winner, Katherine Hepburn) will star in Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language feature, “A Manual for Cleaning Women.” ...
This is the third in a series of stories we’ve done in partnership with the FBI’s Field Office of Pittsburgh. Be sure to check out the first piece on reporting hate crimes and the second about cyber scams. Technology has ...
As we face 2022 there are some hot button questions that I know you’re dying to get answers to: Will COVID-19 ever end? Will U.S. Democracy be trashed like a used surgical mask before the year is through? Will the ...
If you’re still wondering about those homoerotic undertones 25 years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher terrorized Woodsboro in Wes Craven’s “Scream,” you’ve been on the right track all along. With the new “Scream” now in theaters, openly gay screenwriter ...
“We’re not like them,” says one man to another, laying atop him on a dirty roadside. “We don’t have as much time — so we’ve got to grab life by the balls and go for it.” The top in question ...
Pittsburgh yet again showed up and showed out at this year’s Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather competition, held this past weekend in Washington DC. Congratulations to Josh Englert for placing as first runner-up. Josh displayed cool confidence, stylish looks and won the ...
“Bingo Betty” announced on Friday that the monthly OUTrageous Bingos will remain on hiatus through March due to the ongoing surge in the COVID-19 pandemic and the omicron variant. The monthly bingos benefit both the PGH Equality Center and the ...
As we start this New Year, health is top of mind for many LGBTQIA individuals in Pennsylvania including right here in Western PA. As we continue to address the impact of COVID, we know that there are still many other ...
Hey, Qburghers It’s 2022, time for a fresh start; a clean slate! Here are some of my fave things to give your look that little extra polish for ’22 and beyond! BODY Are you using a skin cream after you ...
As Sidney Prescott, fierce fighter of the knife-wielding Ghostface since the mid-1990s, Neve Campbell has represented strength and survival to generations of LGBTQ+ people. When she first appeared in Wes Craven’s groundbreaking “Scream” in 1996, Campbell’s Prescott wasn’t like other ...
As previously reported, our friends at 5801 Video Lounge & Cafe turned their extravagant holiday pop-up bar into a way to do some good in the neighborhood with The First Noëllsworth charity event. Throughout the month of December, 5801 was ...
We like a high-profile queer project hitting the Sundance Film Festival, and the married directorial team of Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne is doing just that later this month with their debut feature, “Am I OK?” Written by Lauren Pomerantz ...
I discovered a really cool book over the weekend called “Bodies Are Cool” by Tyler Feder. My sister bought a copy for her daughter, who is almost 2. It is one of her favorite books, second only to “Wheels on ...
Registration for the Steel City Volleyball Spring 2022 season is now open for all returning and new players. The spring season will run from January 23 through April 24 with games held at Grit Athletix located at 2920 McKelvey Road, ...
KDKA reports and SisTers PGH confirms that 21-year-old Amarey Lej (Myara), a Black trans woman, was shot and found dead lying in the street early New Years’ day in Wilkinsburg. Police responded to the 1300 block of Wood Street in ...
A key member of AIDS activist group ACT UP and a named plaintiff in the ongoing lawsuit against Gilead and other pharma companies for illegally extending the patent of PrEP and HIV medication tenofovir, Peter Staley will tell you that ...
We’re running down the top stories and topics to hit the LGBTQ Community of Pittsburgh in 2021! Including: The return of Stonewall Sports Leagues and Steel City Softball RuPaul’s Queens rolled into town for Drive ‘n Drag A new Pittsburgh ...
Another year over and a new one just begun, here are the top 10 stories of 2021 for the LGBTQ Community of Pittsburgh: Over 10,000 participate in Pittsburgh Pride Weekend With a limited budget and a little under four weeks ...
A lot of people are dead in this country. In two years, more than 800,000 people have died as a result of COVID-19, and yet we still have folks declaring it their God given right to get Covid and spread ...
Call Regina King ‘Shirley’ Academy Award winner Regina King is the latest actor to take up the role of legendary Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to run for president, and whose career prioritized advocating tirelessly for the poor, ...
Like many folks, I’m on a daily text thread with three of my closest Judys (as the young queers, perhaps in a sweet nod to the original gay icon Judy Garland, are calling their friends these days). It’s Mark, Kevin, ...
Brewer’s Bar on Liberty Avenue is the oldest standing gay bar in Pittsburgh and, in 2021, they are continuing their long-standing tradition of serving Christmas dinner and distributing gifts to all who come through their doors this evening. Brewer’s will ...
Philemon Chambers can’t believe he’s in a queer Christmas movie. It’s the kind Chambers, recently named “Next Big Thing” by the Hollywood Reporter, could only dream of watching when he was a little queer boy growing up in Compton, California. ...
Ho ho ho, it’s the height of the War on Christmas. What have you done to subvert this struggling holiday so that it can finally be replaced by a Winter Pride Festival featuring parade Grand Marshall Hermey, the elf who ...
QBurgh LLC, the publishing company of QBurgh, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh opposing their attempted trademark of “Pittsburgh Pride.” The suit, brought nearly a year and a half since the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh announced ...
Are you a last minute shopper? It’s ok, we won’t judge but be careful your procrastination doesn’t cost you more than just expedited shipping. Every year, web-based scoundrels rob online shoppers of hard-earned money, personal information, and their holly, jolly ...