For the first time in its history, Pittsburgh’s leather community has a real chance to bring home an international title when Mr. Pittsburgh Leather 1998 Frank Waugh competes in the 20th International Mr. Leather contest in Chicago May 24. IML-related ...
A former University of Pittsburgh faculty member who registered a complaint with the Pittsburgh Human Relations Commission in 1996 accusing Pitt of discriminatory practices has filed to amend her complaint to a class action on behalf of all gay and ...
The Three Rivers Pride Committee has announced that Pittsburgh PrideFest 1998 has been scheduled for June 20. Beginning at noon, the Pride Parade will march through Shadyside, down Walnut Street and Ellsworth Avenue to Mellon Park, where the annual Pride ...
Women’s tennis star Pam Shriver visited the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force April 7 to promote the upcoming Virginia Slims Legends Tour. The tour’s first visit to Pittsburgh last year raised over $26,000 for the PATF. Proceeds from this year’s two-day ...
A proposal to overhaul Allegheny County government is causing concern among political observers within the local gay and lesbian community. Allegheny County voters will have the opportunity to determine the future of the so-called Home Rule Charter Proposal when they ...
Members of the Gertrude Stein Political Club of Greater Pittsburgh have announced their candidate endorsements for the May 19 primary election. Among the group’s endorsements: ! State Rep. Ivan Itkin received the club’s unanimous endorsement for the Democratic Party nomination for ...
What would Memorial Day be without a barbecue? Luckily, you don’t have to find out: The Real Luck Cafe will host an on-deck barbeque May 22 and May 23 to kick off an event-filled holiday blowout that includes male dancers ...
The Pittsburgh Eagle greets the lusty month of May with a roster of parties that prove that while clothes may not make the man—or woman—there’s just something about a uniform…. On May 8, don your most Divine apparel for “Miss ...
The weather may be heating up, but the Liberty Avenue Saloon is chilling with a special deal for Penguins fans. Just bring your valid game day ticket in before or after the Pens game, and the Saloon will take 50 ...
Celebrate the beginning of summer by spending your holiday at the New York New York. Check out the May 24 patio party, featuring a barbecue meal package served from 2pm ’til 5pm. You could also win prizes including brunch or ...
You didn’t suffer through those April showers just to sit inside in May. Stop and smell the flowers on one of the two outdoor patios now open at Donny’s Place on Polish Hill. And remember, for your spring-fever convenience, Donny’s is open ...
The following article originally appeared in the May 1998 issue of Pittsburgh’s Out and is republished here for the first time in its entirety as originally published. Some language is dated. Help us preserve Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ history, like this article, by ...
Members of the Gertrude Stein Political Club of Greater Pittsburgh have announced their candidate endorsements for the Nov. 4 general election. Among the group’s endorsements: Democrat Joseph A. Del Sole received the club’s endorsement for state Supreme Court. The ...
HEArt Human Equity Through Art is seeking literary and visual artists to participate in its “Letters From the HEArt” fund-raiser, Nov. 7 at Rosebud. Artists are invited to submit original artwork that reflects the organization’s values concerning human rights. According ...
More than $2,400 in missing funds were recovered by the Lambda Foundation Sept. 18 after the foundation’s board of directors threatened to seek a full police investigation into alleged misappropriation. At the foundation’s regular monthly financial review in July, board ...
Thanks to an influx of private donations from individuals and separate grants from the Lambda Foundation and Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Shepherd Wellness Community continues to operate without any cuts in its services to people affected by AIDS. SWC board members had ...
The Pride Inter-Faith Coalition of Pittsburgh will hold a pride interfaith community worship service June 18, beginning at 7:30pm, at the First Unitarian Church, located at Morewood at Ellsworth avenues in Shadyside. “We have planned this service to affirm and ...
Shepherd Wellness Community is currently creating a 400-page, general interest cookbook as its latest fund-raising effort. “Won From the Hear”t” will include recipes from TV’s Mister Rogers, actor Michael Keaton, director George Romero and the much- adored Liz Taylor. “Won ...
Put on your walking shoes and head for the hills–Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park to be exact, for the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force’s third annual AIDS pledge walk June 14. AIDS Walk ’97 begins with check-in and early registration at ...
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health has appointed Dr. Charles R. Rinaldo Jr. as chairman of the school’s Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. Rinaldo currently serves as director of the Pittsburgh site of the national Multi-Center ...
Pittsburghers in Gear–that’s PIG–are scheduled to be there. So are members of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center. And bars like the Pittsburgh Eagle. And what’s a gay pride parade without drag queens? Pittsburgh PrideFest ’97 kicks off at noon ...
Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is in the Hall, and so is black civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Tennis great Billie Jean King, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and astronaut Sally Ride are there too. Now, Cyndee Klemanski and Ellen Margolis ...
CHARLESTON, W. Va.–The steps of the West Virginia Capitol building in Charleston will be the site June 22 of the first statewide pride festival in West Virginia’s history. Borrowing the national pride theme, “Equality Through Visibility,” cochairs John M. Brown ...
Everyone–tennis fans, players, promoters and the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force– walked away from the Virginia Slims Legends Tour a winner. “We were thrilled,” said PATF Director of Development Frank Leavens. “I, along with other people from the Task Force, was ...
The new executive director of the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force has returned to his roots 10 years after serving on the board of directors in the early days of the organization. “That was back when there were no paid staff ...
Anthony “Tony” Silvestre joined the staff of the Pitt Men’s Study in March as the director of community programs. Silvestre comes to Pittsburgh with a wide and varied background: he served as the executive director of Eromin Center in Philadelphia ...
After months of anticipation, Pegasus opened on June 20 to a SRO crowd, followed by the Miss Pittsburgh Pegasus on June 21… both got rave reviews… after being closed the following Tuesday for what was rumored to be a water ...
A new coalition, the National Gay Mobilizing Committee l or A March On Washington, is beginning to grow in some centers of the eastern and midwestern United States. The NGMC is made up of gay people dedicated to the mobilization ...
Chuck Myers and I were the guests on the July 2 WAMO radio program, “Community lceling, Community Talk”, a phone-in talk show. The interviewer, Ruth McClain, was an intelligent, friendly and very open, honest woman who made the show a ...
On Sunday evening, July 8. on the lawn of Carnegie Library in Oakland, a him entitled “The 1 lower Thief” was shown as part of the History of film series. The movie was made in 1961, directed by Ron Rice, ...
The following listing Is a brief day-by-day rundown of scheduled happenings in the gay community. Listings are subject to change, correction or cancellation without notice. Many of the events are described elsewhere in detail in this issue. EVERY SUNDAY—Gay Worship ...
This is the fourth issue of The Gay News. Circulation is continually being expanded in the hopes that it can become a regular source of communication within the gay community locally. Your contribution is solicited for the next and all ...
The various functions GAP sponsors are detailed elsewhere in this issue. These functions are carried on by volunteers concerned with getting the gay community together in every way. If you have some spare time and would like to put it ...
NOTE: The following is a reply to an article by Lawrence Lee in the Sunday, July 1 issue of the Pittsburgh Press editorial section. A similar letter has been sent to the Press as a “letter to the editor”., but ...
A 3-credit course (Women Studies 100) will be offered at the University of Pittsburgh this fall entitled: “Gay Liberation, Marcusean Analysis and the Conspiracy Against Bi Sexuality/Human-Sexuality: A Study In Social Movements.’’ The Women Studies Program at Pitt (one of ...
Gay Alternatives Pittsburgh meets every other Sunday in the First Unitarian Church, Ellsworth at Moeewood in Shadyside. Although much of GAP’s work is accomplished during the week at smaller, less formal open committee meetings, the Sunday meeting provides a forum ...
If it feels good, do it; so some of us masturbate, and some of us have joined the Interstate Gay Pride Marcher set. Marching is mental masturbation. You let off steam, you hold your lover, you feel good. The Feel-Good ...
In its continuing effort to provide social alternatives for gay people and friends, GAP will sponsor a dance at the First Unitarian Church, Ellsworth and Morewood Avenues in Shadyside on Saturday, July 21. GAP now has use of an excellent ...
In the last issue of The Gay News we reported that the location of the Gay Pride Week Lesbian/Feminist Night was a private club. Just for the record, the manager (Shawn) informs us that the 1209 Bar, 1209 Fifth Avenue, ...
GAP has made arrangements with the County Parks Dept, to hold an End-Of-Summer Picnic at South Park for the tri-state area gay community. It will be held on Sunday, September 2 (the day before Labor Day) at the Braddock Grove ...
Persad Center is sponsoring a Consciousness Raising Group for gay men each Monday evening at 9:30. The group meets at Persad and is open to all interested gay men. At the first meeting, the members of the C-R group established ...
Since Sunday, June 24 the beginnings of a gay church has existed in the Pittsburgh area. The Universal Life Church of Celebration has been holding a gay worship service at 10:00 am Sunday mornings on Flagstaff Hill, Schenley Park. The ...
The tragic fire at a gay bar in New Orleans, La. on Sunday, June 24 has demonstrated the emerging consciousness of a NATIONAL gay “community”. Within hours after the first alarm in the fire that claimed at least 22 of ...
Advertising is now being solicited for our next issue. Circulation for this issue was slightly over 4,000 … distributed at several dozen key locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia that cater to a gay clientele. Additionally, many copies were ...
Excellent slides of both Pittsburgh and New York Gay Pride Week celebrations were shown recently at the Gay Coffeehouse. The slides enabled those who couldn’t participate in the events to get an impression of what they were like, and also ...
Only a year ago who would have believed that an entire week devoted to gay people would exist in Pittsburgh and that Gays would be prominently and positively exploited in over a dozen major publications, many radio stations and all ...
Gay Alternatives Pittsburgh has always worked toward the establishment of a permanent social center and organization headquarters for gay people in Pittsburgh. This long held goal seems to be more attainable now than ever before. However, any center, where Gays ...
The various functions GAP sponsors are detailed elsewhere in this newsletter. These functions are carried on by volunteers concerned with getting the gay community together in every way. If you have some spare time and would like to put it ...
Nowhere publicly has Gay Alternatives Pittsburgh ever had the opportunity to thank the First Unitarian Church for the part it has played in our growth. Although in the past there have been communications problems with the Church as well as ...
In addition to the groups already meeting regularly. 3 new CR groups (Consciousness-Raising) are in the planning. CR groups provide an outlet for Gays from all backgrounds to talk and iron out personal situations in a small group of other ...