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SUMMARY:Virtual Volunteer Orientation for Pittsburgh Equality Center
DESCRIPTION:We encourage all volunteers to join us for a discussion about how to best represent the PEC and how to stay up-to-date on volunteering opportunities. \nVolunteers will be given information about how to best get involved with the center and will be given time to ask questions and do some networking! \nThis event is VIRTUAL. Sign up on our Point Organization Profile for the Zoom link. \nDate: July 30th \nTime: 6pm – 7pm
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/virtual-volunteer-orientation-for-pittsburgh-equality-center/
LOCATION:Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="PGH Equality Center":MAILTO:info@pghequalitycenter.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T190000
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SUMMARY:Sappho's Pen
DESCRIPTION:A writing and social club by Lesbi Friends. \nVirtual meeting — join our Discord! \nThursday\, July 30th \n7:00-8:30pm — The Main Plot\nJoin our Discord. Get warm and cozy\, then join the voice channel! We’ll chat for a bit before we start writing. \n8:30-9:00pm — The Plot Twist\nStick around to socialize! We can share what we were working on\, play games\, or just chat. \nDouble meetup month! See us July 18th.
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/sapphos-pen-3/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Immortal Game by Allison Saft (in convo with Rachael Lippincott)
DESCRIPTION:Allison Saft comes to Pittsburgh on tour for her newest sapphic fantasy novel! Join in-store or online. \nGeneral admission: $25.31\nThis ticket includes entry to the in-store event plus a signed hardcover copy of IMMORTAL GAME \nLivestream: $0\nSIGN UP FOR LIVESTREAM: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xPoi7y7qTuaDiVpi2CdJtg \nAbout the Book\n\nSix years ago\, Shea Fury’s sister was whisked away by the High King of the Otherworld\, the ruler of the treacherous land of fae. Although Shea has spent the years since dreaming of rescuing her sister from captivity\, the Iron Veil that separates the human world from the fae has made it only a wish. That is\, until an invitation to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime chess tournament in the Otherworld arrives on Shea’s doorstep. The winner of the tournament may ask the High King to grant one wish and Shea’s is finally within reach. \nBut entering the tournament and winning it are two different feats. Dark magic lurks around every corner in the Otherworld and her cutthroat opponents are willing to bend the rules to make their own wishes come true. To make it to the end – and to find her sister – Shea is forced to strike an alliance with her longtime rival\, the sharply beautiful fae princess\, Ciara of Bri Leith. One wrong move\, though\, and Shea may lose more than just the competition. She’ll lose her sister\, her dignity\, and maybe even her life. \nIn Immortal Game\, Allison Saft has written a high-stakes sapphic love story brimming with competitive tension\, set against a lush Irish folklore-inspired fantasy world.
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/book-launch-immortal-game-by-allison-saft-with-rachael-lippincott/
LOCATION:White Whale Books & Coffee\, 4754 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15224\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="White Whale Books & Coffee":MAILTO:info@whitewhalebookstore.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260809T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260809T140000
DTSTAMP:20260714T215342Z
CREATED:20260714T215342Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Volunteer Orientation for Pittsburgh Equality Center
DESCRIPTION:We encourage all volunteers to join us for a discussion about how to best represent the PEC and how to stay up-to-date on volunteering opportunities. \nVolunteers will be given information about how to best get involved with the center and will be given time to ask questions and do some networking! \nThis event is VIRTUAL. Sign up on our Point Organization Profile for the Zoom link. \nDate: August 9th \nTime: 1pm – 2pm
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/virtual-volunteer-orientation-for-pittsburgh-equality-center-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="PGH Equality Center":MAILTO:info@pghequalitycenter.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260812T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260812T200000
DTSTAMP:20260110T211038Z
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SUMMARY:PFLAG Pittsburgh Virtual Support Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We encourage you to continue to participate in our monthly support group meetings. Our schedule for this year is as follows: \nVirtual\n6:30 – 8:00 pm\, 2nd Wednesday of each month except June (see below): \n\nJanuary 14th\nFebruary 11th\nMarch 11th\nApril 8th\nMay 13th\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly – 8th\nAugust 12th\nSeptember 9th\nOctober 14th\nNovember 11th\nDecember 9th\n\n\nIn Person\n2:00 – 4:00 pm\, 2nd Sunday of each month with two exceptions (see below): \n\nJanuary 11th\nFebruary 8th\nMarch 8th\nApril 12th\nMay 17th (3rd Sunday)\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly 12th\nAugust 9th\nSeptember 13th\nOctober 11th\nNovember 8th\nDecember 13th
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/pflag-pittsburgh-virtual-support-meeting-2/2026-08-12/
LOCATION:Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="PFLAG Pittsburgh":MAILTO:info@pflagpgh.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T203000
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SUMMARY:Holly by grace (ge) gilbert (with Daniel McCarty & Lisa Summe)
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to celebrate local poet\, artist\, and educator\, grace (ge) gilbert\, and their debut\, Holly! Holly is a work of art\, assembling hybrid collage\, poetry\, and memoir. We are thrilled to host a special and dynamic event in celebration of this project. grace will be joined by opening reader\, Daniel McCarty\, and will be in conversation with local poet and editor\, Lisa Summe. \ngrace (ge) gilbert’s Holly merges poetry\, memoir\, and visual art in an effort to recreate the author’s grandmother\, who was murdered in her home in 1976\, and to make sense of their ensuing relationship with their father\, who found his mother’s body when he was eleven years old. Having never been told explicitly by their parents about her murder\, gilbert pieces together her grandmother’s story through fragments\, ephemera\, history\, and the imaginary\, looking past the spectacle of the murdered woman and into the things that come\, like ripples\, after. \nDANIEL MCCARTY is an undergraduate student at Pitt studying biology\, with plans to pursue a career in healthcare. Outside of his major\, he enjoys writing and learning Spanish and playing banjo\, fiddle\, and singing in the Pitt Bluegrass Ensemble. Around Pittsburgh\, Daniel is active in the bluegrass and old-time scene\, and volunteers with the organization Prevention Point Pittsburgh. You can often find him riding his bike to work and school\, hiking\, and reading. \nLISA SUMME is the author of Tell Me Twice (YesYes Books\, 2027) and Say It Hurts (YesYes Books\, 2021). She earned a BA and MA in literature at the University of Cincinnati\, and an MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bat City Review\, Foglifter\, Muzzle\, Salamander\, Salt Hill\, Underblong\, West Branch\, and elsewhere. She is currently associate poetry editor for Brink. You can find her running\, playing baseball\, or eating vegan pastries in Pittsburgh\, PA\, or at lisasumme.com. \ngrace (ge) gilbert (they/them) is a poet\, writer\, and collage artist. they received their MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022\, where they now teach. they are the author of Holly (YesYes Books\, 2026)\, a hybrid image and text book about the 1976 murder of their paternal grandmother\, as well as three chapbooks. Recent work can be found in the Kenyon Review\, the Iowa Review\, the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology\, Pleiades\, the Indiana Review\, Ninth Letter\, Adroit Journal\, and elsewhere. They teach hybrid collage and poetics courses at Brooklyn Poets\, Minnesota Center for Book Arts\, and other institutions. They are passionate about making the hybrid arts accessible to all. \nSign up for the livestream!
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/holly-by-grace-ge-gilbert-with-daniel-mccarty-lisa-summe/
LOCATION:White Whale Books & Coffee\, 4754 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15224\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="White Whale Books & Coffee":MAILTO:info@whitewhalebookstore.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T203000
DTSTAMP:20260720T231705Z
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SUMMARY:I Have a Thing for Flowers by Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn (in convo with Diana Khoi Nguyen)
DESCRIPTION:We are grateful to host regional writer Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn at the Whale to celebrate her new essay collection\, I Have a Thing for Flowers! Structured like an herbarium\, each essay pairs a flower with a person from Sawchyn’s life to compose a delightful blend of botanical research and intimate meditations on love. Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn will be joined in conversation by local poet\, multimedia artist\, and educator\, Diana Khoi Nguyen. \nSix months before her wedding\, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s fiancé broke off their engagement. Stunned\, reeling\, and newly uninsured\, Alysia married her friend Sarah in an arrangement that secured them both free health insurance. They moved in together in the midst of the pandemic\, and\, with time and while tending a garden\, their marriage of convenience grew into a marriage of love. \nIn science\, art\, and mythology\, we cannot help but to see flowers as metaphors for the fleeting nature of youth\, vitality\, and love. It’s easy to casually admire something beautiful\, but it takes a discerning eye to appreciate the effort that went into nourishing and tending to that beauty. In both gardening and relationships\, one cannot expect to fill your garden with flowers if you are unwilling—or unable—to put in the work they need to thrive. In I Have This Thing For Flowers\, Sawchyn does just that\, likening the many flowers she has grown in her gardens to a range of relationships and moments of her life\, reflecting on topics from motherhood to perfumery to scientific illustration. \nCataloguing many of the great romances and loves of her life like an herbarium of flowers preserved from the garden\, Sawchyn examines the kinds of love that can’t be explained. \nDIANA KHOI NGUYEN is the author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, and her video work has been exhibited at Miller ICA. A Kundiman and MacDowell fellow\, Nguyen teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Randolph College and the University of Pittsburgh. \nALYSIA LI YING SAWCHYN teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Bucknell University. Her essay collection A Fish Growing Lungs was a finalist for The Believer Book Awards\, and her second book\, I Have This Thing for Flowers\, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books. Formerly the editor-in-chief of The Rumpus\, she has received fellowships from The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. \nSign up for the livestream!
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/i-have-a-thing-for-flowers-by-alysia-li-ying-sawchyn-in-convo-with-diana-khoi-nguyen/
LOCATION:White Whale Books & Coffee\, 4754 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15224\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="White Whale Books & Coffee":MAILTO:info@whitewhalebookstore.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T200000
DTSTAMP:20260110T211038Z
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SUMMARY:PFLAG Pittsburgh Virtual Support Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We encourage you to continue to participate in our monthly support group meetings. Our schedule for this year is as follows: \nVirtual\n6:30 – 8:00 pm\, 2nd Wednesday of each month except June (see below): \n\nJanuary 14th\nFebruary 11th\nMarch 11th\nApril 8th\nMay 13th\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly – 8th\nAugust 12th\nSeptember 9th\nOctober 14th\nNovember 11th\nDecember 9th\n\n\nIn Person\n2:00 – 4:00 pm\, 2nd Sunday of each month with two exceptions (see below): \n\nJanuary 11th\nFebruary 8th\nMarch 8th\nApril 12th\nMay 17th (3rd Sunday)\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly 12th\nAugust 9th\nSeptember 13th\nOctober 11th\nNovember 8th\nDecember 13th
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/pflag-pittsburgh-virtual-support-meeting-2/2026-09-09/
LOCATION:Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="PFLAG Pittsburgh":MAILTO:info@pflagpgh.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T200000
DTSTAMP:20260110T211038Z
CREATED:20260110T211038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260110T211038Z
UID:10021274-1792002600-1792008000@qburgh.com
SUMMARY:PFLAG Pittsburgh Virtual Support Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We encourage you to continue to participate in our monthly support group meetings. Our schedule for this year is as follows: \nVirtual\n6:30 – 8:00 pm\, 2nd Wednesday of each month except June (see below): \n\nJanuary 14th\nFebruary 11th\nMarch 11th\nApril 8th\nMay 13th\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly – 8th\nAugust 12th\nSeptember 9th\nOctober 14th\nNovember 11th\nDecember 9th\n\n\nIn Person\n2:00 – 4:00 pm\, 2nd Sunday of each month with two exceptions (see below): \n\nJanuary 11th\nFebruary 8th\nMarch 8th\nApril 12th\nMay 17th (3rd Sunday)\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly 12th\nAugust 9th\nSeptember 13th\nOctober 11th\nNovember 8th\nDecember 13th
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/pflag-pittsburgh-virtual-support-meeting-2/2026-10-14/
LOCATION:Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="PFLAG Pittsburgh":MAILTO:info@pflagpgh.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261111T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261111T200000
DTSTAMP:20260110T211038Z
CREATED:20260110T211038Z
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SUMMARY:PFLAG Pittsburgh Virtual Support Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We encourage you to continue to participate in our monthly support group meetings. Our schedule for this year is as follows: \nVirtual\n6:30 – 8:00 pm\, 2nd Wednesday of each month except June (see below): \n\nJanuary 14th\nFebruary 11th\nMarch 11th\nApril 8th\nMay 13th\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly – 8th\nAugust 12th\nSeptember 9th\nOctober 14th\nNovember 11th\nDecember 9th\n\n\nIn Person\n2:00 – 4:00 pm\, 2nd Sunday of each month with two exceptions (see below): \n\nJanuary 11th\nFebruary 8th\nMarch 8th\nApril 12th\nMay 17th (3rd Sunday)\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly 12th\nAugust 9th\nSeptember 13th\nOctober 11th\nNovember 8th\nDecember 13th
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/pflag-pittsburgh-virtual-support-meeting-2/2026-11-11/
LOCATION:Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="PFLAG Pittsburgh":MAILTO:info@pflagpgh.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261209T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261209T200000
DTSTAMP:20260110T211038Z
CREATED:20260110T211038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260110T211038Z
UID:10021276-1796841000-1796846400@qburgh.com
SUMMARY:PFLAG Pittsburgh Virtual Support Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We encourage you to continue to participate in our monthly support group meetings. Our schedule for this year is as follows: \nVirtual\n6:30 – 8:00 pm\, 2nd Wednesday of each month except June (see below): \n\nJanuary 14th\nFebruary 11th\nMarch 11th\nApril 8th\nMay 13th\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly – 8th\nAugust 12th\nSeptember 9th\nOctober 14th\nNovember 11th\nDecember 9th\n\n\nIn Person\n2:00 – 4:00 pm\, 2nd Sunday of each month with two exceptions (see below): \n\nJanuary 11th\nFebruary 8th\nMarch 8th\nApril 12th\nMay 17th (3rd Sunday)\nJune – no meeting (Pride month)\nJuly 12th\nAugust 9th\nSeptember 13th\nOctober 11th\nNovember 8th\nDecember 13th
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/pflag-pittsburgh-virtual-support-meeting-2/2026-12-09/
LOCATION:Virtual
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