Fuck Ron DeSantis. I mean, not literally. But yeah, fuck that guy. While signing anti-DEI legislation that would let “individuals sue local governments that implement DEI programs,” Florida ...
Listen on Apple Podcasts May the Fourth be with you You can feel it, right? The shift. It’s not Pride Month yet… but queer Pittsburgh is absolutely waking up. The ...
Book Fest is back. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh celebrates the city’s rich literary community and love of reading in an annual event at the main branch. Poets, authors, book enthusiasts, and ...
For nearly three decades, Jessica Kirson has built a stand-up career the long way: performing night after night, city after city, trusting that if she stayed honest, vulnerable — maybe even just a ...
The Pennsylvania House voted Tuesday to advance legislation that would finally place explicit LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections into state law, marking another major chapter in a fight that ...
The Pittsburgh Public School board voted Wednesday to approve a policy requiring educators to notify parents in advance when classroom instruction could conflict with “sincerely held religious ...
It’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit.” That’s the first thing I saw when I opened Bluesky today. It was posted by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats.  Darnielle was responding to ...
On Sunday, April 26, multiple generations of Pittsburgh’s lesbian community gathered at the Soft Spot, the newly opened sapphic café, to celebrate Lesbian Day of Visibility. Throughout the ...
Even as Republican state senators passed a second attempt to restrict transgender female athlete participation in Pennsylvania schools, leadership acknowledged that it was unlikely to ...
Across the country, Pride celebrations have increasingly expanded beyond major cities into suburbs, neighborhoods, and small towns. In the Pittsburgh region, suburbs including Dormont, Mt. Lebanon, ...
This story was originally reported by Nadra Nittle of The 19th. Sarah DeMaria still remembers how close she came to resigning from her role as a school librarian. It was the summer of 2023, and ...