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” ...
On Monday, April 5, 2021, five Republican Pennsylvania State Representatives will lead a press conference promoting their introduction of a dangerous bill targeting transgender children. The legislation would ban trans children from school sports. The bill would have school officials charged with ...
Arkansas is auditioning hard to become America’s biggest nightmare state. There is a lot of creepy stuff afoot right now. Across the country, Republicans are passing anti-voting legislation because they know they can’t win on their ideas, especially since their ...
Spring has sprung and these events are sure to fill up your queer basket in April. As state-mandated restricts begin to be lifted at the beginning of the month, please remember to continue to follow the guidelines of the establishment ...
Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass fall into friendship in ‘Language Lessons’ Queer actress Natalie Morales (“Dead to Me,” “Parks and Recreation”) has directed her first feature film, “Language Lessons.” Shot during the pandemic, primarily over Zoom, it stars Morales as ...
Observed annually on March 31st, the world celebrates Trans Day of Visibility. This year it is even more important to stand up, speak out and center our conversations and community around our trans brothers and sisters. 2021 has already become ...
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the folks behind “Thanks to Her” are hiring to fill positions for this spring, summer and fall in the production of the film. Positions are for full and part-time internships in Grant Writing, Casting Assistant, ...
Updated 3/31/2021 On May 18th, Bill Peduto will be running for a third term as Mayor of Pittsburgh. It will be his last run and will be happening amid a pandemic, in a city divided between those who believe Pittsburgh ...
Fortune Feimster’s mouth has been going and going and going. “I talk a lot right now,” says the Southern comedian who hails from North Carolina, coughing and clearing her throat as we – that’s right – talk on Zoom. In addition ...
In some ways, Say It Hurts is a poetry collection that actually celebrates the relief that comes after doing just that: naming when shit hurts. You might call that sentiment melodramatic, and you might be right, as this book is ...
It takes a hell of a lot of magical thinking to look around at how things are in the U.S. right now and say to yourself, “Man, I wish we were living under the stability and competence we had under ...
The Steel City Softball League’s Board of Directors met Wednesday evening and announced that the 40th season of the league will run from June 12th to September 11th, 2021. The Steel City Softball League began in 1981 and remains the ...
In an historic confirmation vote, the U.S. Senate voted today to confirm Dr. Rachel Levine as assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. The vote was 52 – 48 in favor of confirmation. “I am ...
Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam encouraged Pennsylvanians to take steps to decrease their risk of getting Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), including getting tested regularly to stay healthy. Central Outreach Wellness Center offers free and confidential STD testing at all ...
A new directive has taken effect for Older Adult LGBTQ people. As of March 1st, the Pennsylvania Department of Aging (PDA) recognizes Older Adult LGBTQ people as “Greatest Social Need”. A more thorough explanation was provided by Secretary of the PA Department ...
With Autism Awareness Month just around the corner in April, I thought it might be time to examine the relationship between neurodiversity and gender identity. Many people find the burgeoning array of identity terms currently available to be overwhelming. Some ...
Model and actress Dominique Jackson can’t say a thing about the third and final season of one of the most groundbreaking LGBTQ+ series ever made. It’s mid February when we connect, just weeks before it was announced that seven new ...
When we were children, we learned all kinds of things. We learned things as vastly different as our languages and cultures, but one thing that was pretty much universal was coloring. Coloring was a way to teach us our lessons ...
For the March 2021 episode of the QBurgh Podcast we are happy to be joined by Sherree Goldstein, the out and proud owner of the Square Café in East Liberty. Sherree talks with us about her experience as a small ...
It’s been one hell of a week. First, the good news. Vaccine distribution is going great! Hooray! Go get stabbed when it’s your turn! I can’t wait! So many exclamation marks!!! Then the bad news. More state Republicans are pushing ...
Niecy Nash makes ‘The Perfect Find’ Niecy Nash, star of “Claws,” “Reno 911” and “Mrs. America,” has signed on to a new romcom for Netflix. It’s called “The Perfect Find,” it’s based on the 2016 novel by Tia Williams, and ...
Erie, Pennsylvania might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of groundbreaking political change, but Dr. Tyler Titus would be quick to challenge that perception. In 2017, Titus sent shockwaves through Pennsylvania when they became ...
In a basement classroom my freshman year of college, I heard a woman with purple hair say, “I came out to my parents as queer when I was 13. And I came out to them as kinky last year.” I ...
Let’s face it – 2020 was horrible, to say the least. From politics, to COVID-19, to a general unrest, the world is in need of some good news. Here at Central Outreach Wellness Center, Dr. Stacy Lane and her staff ...
In the years leading up to 2020, the concept of polyamory was gaining some popularity. Having multiple partners was not only being more widely accepted, it was in some ways encouraged. Then, of course, COVID-19 came along and ruined that ...
Hi Central, I keep my “Last tested” on Scruff up-to-date but some of the guys I chat with don’t always. I hate to be a buzzkill but should I be asking everyone before meeting up when their last test was? ...
In the era of COVID-19, the silver lining of spending all your time indoors and away from others is that you are allowed the freedom to rediscover yourself and your interests that might normally be set aside under “normal circumstances.” ...
Just imagine it: The world is locked in a pandemic. A huge aspect of your career has been put on pause and there’s no hint of when it will start back up. Then the phone rings. You’re offered an opportunity ...
Hip, hip, hooray! The U.S. House passed The Equality Act! We’re all equal now! There’s no more hate, no more homophobia, no more Marjorie Taylor Greene! OK, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. But the Equality Act amends the 1964 ...
After years of collaborating on shorts films around the East coast, filmmakers André Phillips and Charles Vuolo shared a gut feeling: they were both ready to make a feature-length production. But they weren’t sure what to make it about. Then, ...
Write what you know. Sometimes the best advice can be a cliche. This wisdom was what Sam Orlowski took from her screenwriting class at the University of Pittsburgh taught by Carl Kurlander. What Orlowski knew was an internal struggle around ...
The RuPaul Universe expands with “Queen of the Universe” RuPaul has a new ViacomCBS show called “Queen of the Universe.” Yes, it’s drag-based, because of course it is. But there’ll be no lip-syncing for one’s life. The queens in competition ...
For Angelica Ross, her short time on “Pose” wasn’t an end — it was a beginning. After famously portraying Candy Ferocity on the FX series, which depicts New York City ball culture, Ross starred in another Ryan Murphy production, “American ...
The Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation has partnered with the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown and other LGBTQ centers and clinics across Pennsylvania with facilitation by Bryn Mawr College to conduct a survey of the LGBTQ Community and the COVID-19 ...