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 ...

With 45% of precincts reporting at 10:26 pm tonight, Mayor Peduto called State Representative Ed Gainey to concede the Democratic primary for Mayor of Pittsburgh. Ed Gainey will very likely become the first black Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh ...

“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 ...