Pittsburgh’s queer community is rallying once again, this time in the wake of a devastating U.S. Supreme Court decision that upholds Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors, ...

Pride is about so much more than just being your true self. It’s about coming together to raise each other up in a safe space. Pittsburgh Black Pride, one of the oldest Black Pride celebrations, ...

This story was originally reported by Kate Sosin of The 19th Trans people report greater health and mental health outcomes when they have social support and access to gender-affirming medical ...

Happy Pride, everybody! I have my Pride flags hanging on my porch (one rainbow, one white, pink and blue) and have noticed a couple of neighbors with Pride flags. It’s a happy time of year. Well, ...

There’s a Mariah Carey canvas in my hands and Benito Skinner on Zoom, and somehow, this feels exactly right. My teenage self — the one who lip-synced “Fantasy” in a locked bedroom — ...

Phat Man Dee has been an instrumental force in Pittsburgh’s music and queer communities for decades. As a jazz vocalist, songwriter, educator, and creative director of Phat Man Dee Productions, ...

The Celluloid Closet is the book that changed my life,” said Rich Cummings, the founder of Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ film festival, the ReelQ. Cummings was reading Vito Russo’s book, a history of ...

To preserve the identities of members, no photographs of the meeting were permitted. Only attendees who were willing to give their full names are identified in this article. On ...

From the 1970s all the way through the end of the 2000s, both Galik and Slusser worked at Torrance State Hospital through the Social Service Department. Both were psychiatric social workers, ...

In other words, right as scientists are on the cusp of an HIV vaccine, their funding gets yanked. Could this be related to the fact that Health and Human Services and Dead Brain Worm Host Robert ...

In the early hours of Valentine’s Day of 1988, Pittsburgh police raided Traveler’s Social Club, a private gay club in the city’s East Liberty neighborhood. The nation was nearing the peak of the ...

Huny (she/her or they/them) is many things: a DJ, a photographer, a curator of community, and a tender but fierce advocate for Black queer life. For over a decade, she’s called Pittsburgh home, a ...