“You finna take me home?” It’s a beautiful, sunny Saturday afternoon in Squirrel Hill, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh. I’m sitting with emerging author Brian Broome. In just a few days, Broome’s debut memoir, Punch Me Up To The Gods, will ...
Almodovar and Penelope Cruz reteam for ‘Parallel Mothers’ With his impeccably glamorous short film “The Human Voice” (starring the equally impeccable Tilda Swinton) finally streaming on HBO Max, Academy Award winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar is teaming up with one ...
A historic election is brewing in one of Philadelphia’s most iconic, and queer, districts. Deja Lynn Alvarez, an activist and Co-Founder of Home For Hope, launched her campaign earlier this month and announced her run for State Representative for the ...
The Hot Queer Summer Ball kicked off the start of Hot Vax Summer and the first weekend without a mandatory masking requirement last night at Brewer’s Hotel and Bar in lower Lawrenceville. Sponsored by Project Matters and Allies for Health ...
You know how they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity? And also how they say don’t feed the trolls? Well, in a convergence of the two I have discovered The Brothers Osborne, a country music duo who are, ...
The pandemic seems to have claimed another small, local business. The Shadyside bar Element appears to be officially closed for good. Element, formerly Spin Bartini, closed in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic first forced businesses across the country to ...
This story has its villains, its victims, its social relevance, some justice, and in retrospect, a somewhat painful ending. This story is more than a page out of history, and it needs to be preserved and never forgotten. Names have ...
The LGBTQ inclusive City of Pittsburgh Hate Crimes Law has passed City Council unanimously. Original article published April 24, 2021: An ordinance to be introduced to Pittsburgh City Council next week will create a city-wide Hate Crimes Law that includes ...
Lil Nas X or ABBA or maybe Diana Ross? What songs and artists scream PRIDE to you? QBurgh and WYEP are teaming up to set the sounds of Pittsburgh Pride this year and we want to know what songs you ...
The Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, which partnered with the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation locally and the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, has released the results of the Pennsylvania LGBTQ COVID-19 Vaccine Survey, which ...
Facebook, Twitter and all manner of social media have been abuzz with the question, “Is there a Pride this year?!” The short answers is YES. But. Pittsburgh Pride 2021 is definitely a lot different than it has been in the ...
Home is where the heart is, but sadly too many people are heartless when it comes to those who are homeless. Especially when those people are trans women of color. Ten years ago when Kayla Gore experienced homelessness and needed ...
I haven’t thought about Steve Bannon in a hot minute. Best minute of my life, now that I think about it. But all good things must come to an end. And so, Bannon is back in my newsfeed, specifically promoting ...
When R. G. Forrester, as his name would appear on the ballot but better known as Randy, announced his candidacy for Allegheny County Commissioner on the morning of March 5, 1979 Harvey Milk had already been assassinated the previous year. ...
If you follow pop culture, you would assume there are elections only every four years and then we’re done with all of that until the next quadrennial elections. You’d be wrong. There are vitally important elections every single year, twice ...
Are Alaska Thunderfuck’s filthy jokes about Jeffrey Epstein, “genderfluids,” labia and poop too much for our world on fire? Alaska, even though she has a song called “Anus,” thought maybe they were. She wasn’t sure if an assault joke in ...
May is blooming for you! There is so much to do and going on in May that you aren’t going to want to miss it! Wednesday, May 5th TransYouniting Online Canvass 6:30 – 7:15pm, online We are promoting the Trans ...
‘Furiosa’ hits the road with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth Sometimes, even now, the queerest icons are all subtext. Nothing could be clearer about Charlize Theron’s ferocious Furiosa in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and the character never once declares herself ...
TransYouniting held a protest and demonstration Sunday at Schenley Plaze in Oakland to bring attention to and speak out against the continuing epidemic of violence towards trans people and particularly trans people of color. 17 trans people have been killed ...
Today is the last day to register to vote in the 2021 Primary Election in Pennsylvania. The primary election will be held on May 18 with both in person and by-mail voting options available. The major elections on the ballot ...
A couple of blocks east from Manhattan’s Empire State Building in the neighborhood known as Murray Hill, 25-year-old Taiwan-born photographer Hsiang-Hsi Lu fires off a Grindr message. “He’s Taiwanese!” Lu remarks with a tinge of pleasant surprise about the 20-something ...
The Stonewall Alliance, the non-profit that oversees the Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh leagues, has established the “Play It Forward” fund to help offset registration costs for players and to make the Stonewall Sports Leagues accessible to more players. The fund will ...
Spring is in full swing and the podcast gets a little sporty with guest Aaron White from Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh Kickball. Aaron, the commish, talks with us about his work to make the legendary season 12 of kickball the most ...
On March 20 [1977], a relatively unknown talent graced the stage of the Allegheny Starlite Ballroom and competed with 11 other ”drag” entertainers for the title of “Miss Pittsburgh,” a first for this city. The audience did the judging by ...
I was 19 years old and pregnant when I received my HIV diagnosis in 2006. “This is punishment,” I thought, just rewards for the survival sex I turned to on the streets of Minneapolis as a homeless, runaway teen. I ...
Congratulations, everyone! We did it! Anti-LGBTQ+ bias is over and done now that Caitlyn Jenner is running to be California’s next governor! If we’ve learned anything from these past four years, it’s that putting a completely unqualified ego-maniac in charge ...
Oh, how social media has changed things since I moved to Hollywood in 1996. Getting an actress ready for an event used to take two hours and afterwards you’d go home or out to dinner. The next morning you’d wait ...
Today, Pittsburgh City Councilperson Erika Strassburger and Councilman Bruce Kraus will introduce legislation allowing LGBTQIA+ businesses to specifically register with the City of Pittsburgh’s procurement platform. This will allow LGBTQIA+ businesses not only to self-identify, but to gain access to ...
Since 1973, Pittsburgh LGBTQ publications have served as a community resource connecting and building a community for queer Pittsburghers and preserving a history that is often overlooked. Many look back on these print publications with fond memories of how they ...
An ordinance to be introduced to Pittsburgh City Council next week will create a city-wide Hate Crimes Law that includes sexual orientation, gender identity and disability. The proposed legislation would add to existing State and Federal Hate Crimes laws that ...
Gary Van Horn of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and the long-time former head of the now-defunct Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh settled his charges of impersonating a public servant and forging the signature of a county sheriff on Friday. Van Horn took ...
I remember my childhood barber. He was a friend of my father named Mr. Charlie, and his shop was a four minute drive away from our house. My brother and I got our haircuts there for years until Mr. Charlie ...
In some of the least important and pressing recent news, former The Bachelor star Colton Underwood came out as gay during an interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. Social media was aflame with a variety of reactions–from people ...
For six seasons, queer nonbinary actor, activist and author Nico Tortorella has starred as Josh, the delightfully brooding (straight) tattoo artist, on super-queer TV Land dramedy “Younger.” Created, executive produced and written by openly gay “Sex and the City” helmer ...
Whenever I want to bum myself out, I do a Google news search for “Florida.” Because if terrible things are happening in the country, I can always count on Florida to kick the awfulness up a notch. For example, Gov. ...
A new ‘Queer as Folk’ is coming to Peacock After a couple years of rumbling maybes, there’s a new “Queer as Folk” on the way, with an eight-episode, straight-to-series order from NBC’s streaming service Peacock. The “reimagining” is from “Little ...
A fiery progressive Democratic lawmaker from Philadelphia is already raising big bucks in his run to be the No. 2 executive in Pennsylvania. State Rep. Brian Sims has already raised $285,000 in six weeks since announcing his 2022 run for ...
The members of the Gertrude Stein Political Club of Greater Pittsburgh this week announced their endorsement of candidates for the May 18th Primary Election. The Gertrude Stein Political Club is a multi-partisan organization working in electoral politics in support of ...
The Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation announced the launch of in-house legal services to address the high priority legal needs of the LGBTQ+ and HIV community members in our region. Services will target those most marginalized through free, need-based civil legal ...
Greetings from a pandemic that is still ongoing and getting worse in places. Here is a public service announcement: you don’t need to be eating inside of restaurants right now even if your state says it’s OK. It is a ...
(CC BY-ND) For all of the gains LGBTQ people have made over the past few decades, sports remain a highly visible reminder that homophobia and transphobia persist. In recent years, more professional athletes, from U.S. women’s soccer team player ...
Central Outreach Wellness Center has announced that they will host a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic the weekend of April 24 and April 25 at their North Shore location at 127 Anderson Street. The clinic will run from 10:00 AM to ...
On Tuesday, a motion to condemn state and federal legislative attempts to prohibit transgender athletes from participating in youth and collegiate sports leagues of their gender identity failed in a vote of 7 in favor to 6 opposed. A motion ...
Last summer, Justice Smith wasn’t coming out but, instead, making a statement in solidarity with the Black trans and queer community. On Instagram, the 25-year-old actor posted a video while attending a protest against white supremacy and police brutality in ...
Central Outreach Wellness Center, the regions preeminent LGBTQ health and wellness provider, has launched “PrEP 2 Me“, an at-home testing and by-mail prescription service making PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) and queer healthcare convenient and easy. The new service specializes in culturally ...
Pennsylvania’s transgender community is pushing back against a Republican-backed bill in the state House that would ban transgender women and girls from participating in interscholastic athletics. And one member of the region’s transgender community also says she’ll be mounting an electoral challenge ...
To create the right kind of atmosphere in order to write this I have all the lights off and am using a black background instead of a white one on my computer. I’m also burning a candle and listening to ...
We’re coming off a historic year in 2020. A year that devastated us and empowered us. A year that tested us and made us stronger. A year that put systemic racism and health disparities front and center for the world ...
Within hours of the press conference introducing an anti-trans bill, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that he would veto any such bill should it reach his desk. Lyndsay Kensinger, press secretary to Governor Wolf, said “The governor has been clear ...
To know dodie is to really know her. Since 2011, the British singer-songwriter’s diary-wide-open authenticity has drawn millions of fans to her YouTube channel doddleoddle and its sister channel, doddlevloggle. Those faithful fans — she once considered calling them “doddlers” ...