Dear Friends: June is an opportunity to celebrate our right to love who we love and to love, and be, our true selves. I am proud to have participated in Pride events every year, including the years that I have ...
In February 2021, the University of Pittsburgh Center for Creativity and Year of Engagement sponsored “In Our Own Write,” a creative writing program for LGBTQ+ elders ages 50+. On June 28, the anniversary of the first day of the Stonewall ...
Pride-inspired products are popping up everywhere these days, with businesses big and small competing for our mighty pink dollars. But how can you tell which are genuinely interested in equality for all or just trying to make a quick buck? ...
Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh was excited to announce that the fifth season of bocce will be returning this fall with registration opening at noon tomorrow, June 23 through the June 30, with the season set to begin on August 19. Games ...
GREETINGS: It is my pleasure to unite with QBurgh to welcome everyone gathered for Pittsburgh Pride Month 2021. William Penn founded our commonwealth on the principles of fairness and tolerance, and I believe we must continue to be a place ...
In the later hours of Leap Day 2020, you could hear a distinct sound on Baum Boulevard in North Oakland. That sound was a muffled mix of talking, Italo Disco music and communal joy, and it was coming from P-Town ...
“Love, Victor,” now in its second season, refuses to navigate coming out as simply a one-note experience. The gay teen-romance, a series spinoff of the groundbreaking “Love, Simon” feature film, launched its debut season last year on Hulu. The first ...
Finding LGBTQ+ books used to be a challenge. You couldn’t just Google “lesbian romance novels” or “books with trans characters.” But now, luckily, that’s no longer the case. Especially with Pride season in full swing. Whether a breezy-beach read is ...
Aside from women daring to make their own reproductive decisions, there’s nothing right-wing conservatives hate more than Pride Month. The “rainbow deluge” the Family Research Council’s professional hate monger Tony Perkins calls it. Honestly, Rainbow Deluge sounds like the name ...
Today, the US Supreme Court held in a unanimous decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia that non-discrimination policies must have neutral application and enforcement. Philadelphia’s standard foster care contract includes a clause that allows for exceptions from non-discrimination requirements ...
Midway through Pride Month, Gov. Tom Wolf and Democratic allies in the General Assembly have announced their latest push to pass anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ Pennsylvanians. The legislation, which is formally known as the Fairness Act, bans employment, housing and ...
The “Art Equality” exhibit at the Manos Gallery in Tarentum opened on June 5 with over 200 visitors coming to view the works of 26 artists. Ernesto Camacho, Art director and co-owner of the gallery said that “the exhibit showcases ...
RuPaul’s queens rolled into town for “Drive N Drag Saves 2021” last night with two stunning shows. With co-hosts Lady Bunny and Asia O’Hara, queens Violet Chachki, Kameron Michaels, Aquaria, Ms. Vanjie, and fresh from Season 13 — Gotmik and ...
G2H2 (Gay Guy Happy Hour) finally returned this past Friday with hosts Dan, Wayne, JR, and Michael at 5801 Video Lounge in Shadyside. G2H2 hasn’t met since before the pandemic on March 13, 2020! Photos by G Michael Beigay. ...
Seven years before Greyson Chance came out in 2017 in an open-hearted and emotional Instagram post, he became a viral sensation thanks to Ellen DeGeneres. The year was 2010 when Chance’s profile rocketed after appearing on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” ...
It was another busy weekend in June for continued Pride celebrations, Drag shows, and queer sports galore! 5801 Pride Street Festival Before the storm yesterday, 5801 in Shadyside hosted an outdoor Pride celebration benefitting the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation. Mayor-apparent ...
After 19 games on the final day of Stonewall Kickball Pittsburgh’s legendary season 12, the BALLics emerged as the champions with an undefeated season. Playoff results Final regular season results ...
Despite a slightly soggy field to start the day, the opening day of the 40th season of the Steel City Softball League was met with good weather and a cookout. With eleven teams playing six games, the season opener was ...
This week, Madison Vaughan of Photos Magazine, a creative photography magazine based in Philadelphia, held a photoshoot for Pride month. The idea was originally pitched to her by Eve Catharine with the hope of celebrating some of the LGBTQ+ community ...
(CC BY-NC-ND) It seems that more and more teens are identifying as transgender, gender-fluid or nonbinary. But because linguistic and cultural norms are always evolving, it’s been challenging to pin down an exact number. The 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, ...
I remember it like it was yesterday: Trump supporters flying flags that said, “Fuck your feelings,” wearing “Suck it up, Buttercup” T-shirts and making fun of safe spaces. Now, these same people are demanding that we stop teaching about racism ...
Mj Rodriguez joins Maya Rudolph for Apple+ comedy “Pose” is gone, so long live the careers of its luminous cast of trans women. That’s the collection of Pride Month wishes we sent out to the universe, and already one of ...
Updated 9:38 am 6/10/2021 The Allegheny County plumbing code might not be the sexiest item on the public agenda, but it has had a major impact on bathroom access for trans and non-binary residents. A broad coalition of advocates, politicians, ...
With a limited budget and a little under four weeks to plan and execute, Pittsburgh Pride returned this past weekend with a bang. Early estimates are that over 10,000 people participated in the events over the weekend, with 8,000 participating ...
It’s hard enough finding a role model and road map for life as a marginalized individual. Chella Man already knows this, of course. The artist, actor, model and activist is deaf, genderqueer, Jewish, half-Chinese and pansexual. Yet the Brooklyn-based 22-year-old, ...
Dear friends, I am honored, as an ally and Pittsburgher, to help welcome you to Celebrate Pride 2021. I have had the privilege of engaging with and battling alongside of Pennsylvania’s LGBTQ+ community for more than 23 years. The month ...
In August of 2020, two days after the Delta Foundation folded, Dena Stanley of Trans YOUniting, Dalen Hooks and others from the community called a press conference and announced the intention to rebirth Pride in a way that was centered ...
In 2006, after a slew of attacks on the LGBTQ Community by politicians eager to weaponize the community for quick political gain (sound familiar?), Pittsburgh Pride grew three times larger with a crowd of 8,000 participating in the events at ...
WYEP and QBurgh have teamed up to curate a Pittsburgh Pride playlist for everyone to enjoy all Pride month long. Based on over 260 suggestions from QBurgh readers, the Pride playlist is nearly six hours of music to celebrate the ...
Red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, violet… chartreuse? With Pride month comes many celebrations and marches in support of the LGBTQ Community and the many symbols and flags that have come to represent the varying communities that make up the ...
Pride in 2021 is even more important than ever. Take this Pride month to celebrate who you are and never apologize for it but remember that Pride is more than a party. Our LGBTQ Community is still under attack by ...
Despite the colder weather, the Washington County Gay Straight Alliance Memorial Day picnic on Sunday, May 30 was well attended and Lt. Governor John Fetterman and Pennsylvania’s Second Lady Gisele Fetterman stopped by for the festivities. ...
Cher tweets biopic news and we’re hanging on her every word When one follows Cher on Twitter, one becomes used to — let’s even say enveloped in — her personal style of distributing information and opinions. There are frequent emojis, ...
When I was a kid in the ’80s I saw an episode of the “Twilight Zone” called “To See the Invisible Man.” In a future society, people get a mark on their foreheads, kind of raised and fleshy, like a ...
May has nearly turned to June and that means that it’s Pride Season! Jim and Jason are talking all things Pride including debates about kink and nudity having representation at Pride, cops in Pride events, RuPaul’s All Stars Season 6, ...
Sunday, June 17, 1973, will always be remembered as the day that LGBTQ Pittsburgh “came out”. At 12 noon a crowd began to form in Market Square in Downtown, Pittsburgh. Marchers, signs, banners, loudspeakers all gathered. TV cameras and reporters ...
“Rainbows. Rainbows everywhere. Put a Rainbow on it!” That’s how I envision the marketing and products team meeting goes every year at Multi-National-Somewhat-Problematic-Corporation-X as June approaches. While it can be nice to see so much support for the LGBTQ Community ...
Leyna Bloom made a splash this year for being the first Black and Asian openly trans woman to be featured in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, out in July. But even before reaching that historical milestone, the 27-year-old Chicago ...
Ah, the power of a good face mask! Whether your skin is dry, oily, or somewhere in between, there are great options out there for you. I have super oily skin. In the mid 90’s I decided to add masking ...
Tennessee is on an anti-LGBTQ+ roll, y’all. You may remember that I wrote about how gay country music star T.J. Osborne was supposed to get honored by the state legislature via a resolution. But a Republican, Rep. Jeremy Faison, stepped ...
Dear Central, So, my boyfriend and I got together before the pandemic and we have been together ever since. I think this might last forever, and I wondered if I should stay on PrEP that I have been on since ...
After months, and weeks, and some days, and maybe what even feels like a few years, you FINALLY snagged a vaccine. All of the stress, the anxiety, and ultimately the sigh of relief that yes, life is beginning to return ...
After a year of what seems to have been a constant state of limbo, 2021 is finally beginning to look upwards. Here at Central Outreach Wellness Center, we are striving to continue with ever-changing health care practices that are game ...
I truly believe it was to our detriment that most of us grew up thinking that masturbation is something to be ashamed of. Think about it. We weren’t educated about it. It wasn’t spoken of and if it was, it ...
A gay man with cerebral palsy. You won’t find that kind of important representation just any time you flick on the TV, which is why Ryan O’Connell’s Netflix show “Special” has been uniquely refreshing and profoundly revolutionary. It began as ...
In a press conference at True T Studios in Bloomfield this morning and surrounded by LGBTQ+ community members, medical professionals, and state Representative Sara Innamorato, state Representative Dan Frankel, D-Allegheny, officially unveiled his “Protection of Patient Trust Act” Thursday. The ...
High rates of LGBTQ sexual assault, no centralized resources, and the only R1 University without a dedicated space for LGBTQ students; these are some of the many troubling conditions at the University of Pittsburgh detailed in a first-of-its-kind report by ...
In Erie County, Dr. Tyler Titus appears to have won the Democratic nomination for County Executive beating a crowded field in a tight race. Titus is the first Trans elected official in Pennsylvania as the Erie School Board president. “What ...
Updated May 20, 2021 The future of HIV treatment is already changing. In January, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new treatment called Cabenuva, which would get rid of daily pills and introduce a once-a-month injectable medication. Cabenuva is ...