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GLSEN SAFE PROM FOR ALL

When: Friday, April 29 from 7 pm-11 pm

Where: The University Club

              123 University Place

              Pittsburgh, PA 15260

              412-648-8213

Tickets cost $20.  There will be food, drinks, a photographer, and plenty of song and dance. For more info. contact GLSEN Pittsburgh at:

412-361-6996

Email: pittsburgh@chapters.glsen.org

I've seen stories popping up around the county about the inevitable situation of girls wanting to wear tuxes to their proms. In some places (which we never hear about), there's no eyebrows raised.  Others go to extreme length to stop the insanity of women wearing pants. 

It is good that Pgh simply has a place for all queer kids to not put up with that crap and enjoy the prom experience for a reasonable price.  Safe spaces should not be taken for granted and kudo to Pgh GLSEN for continuing to put this event together for Pittsburgh's kids. 

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Friday April 15th
Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow PittsburghRemedy 5121 Butler St.
8:30pm doors, 9pm show, $5
Featuring local performers Bekezela Mguni, Nichole Faina and more!

...Stay for the Afterparty-Operation Sappho!!!
w DJ's Mary Mack, Square Peg, and Drop That
Special guest DJ Shomi Noise from Heels on Wheels
Photobooth by Caldwell
Come dance with us!

Liberation magic, anti-capitalist robots, Medusa-themed puppet theatre, riot grrl dance parties, and the story of stardust accompany the journey of six queer femme artists and activists touring from Brooklyn through the Midwestern U.S. this April. You?re invited to enjoy the spectacle as these dazzling troublemakers create a world of radical extravagance and thought-provoking glamour: Heels on Wheels Roadshow is a queer performance art cabaret hitting the road April 15-25, 2011, in search of new friends, fantastic adventures and siblings in the struggle in Pittsburgh, Columbus, Bloomington, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Madison [TBD], Chicago, Ypsilanti, Detroit, Rochester, Philadelphia and New York City.
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Friday April 22nd
8:00pm-2:00am

Whore Paint * Zeitgeist * 90's/Riot Grrrl Danceparty

Awesome rock show & danceparty with former Pittsburgher Meredith Stern's band + local new band + lots of 90's & riot grrrl records to dance to! doors at 8:00, show starts at 9:00:::: Whore Paint ...(from Providence, RI: heavy 3-piece of ladies rocking HARD. members of Made in Mexico, Arcing, The Accident, Teenage Waistband, etc) Zeitgeist (New female-fronted punk from Pittsburgh. Members of Icon Gallery, etc) 11:00 onward::: 90's/Riot Grrrl Danceparty with::: DJ Drop That DJ Square Peg DJ Mary Mack playing lady and queercore punk records as well as 90's dance jamz!!! +++ zine + music swap/sale. come early to mingle with rad ladies + dudes + share what you make. Meredith is an amazing printmaker too, and she will probably bring some goodies to sell: http://www.justseeds.org/artists/meredith_stern/ $6 / $5 if you dress in RIOT GRRRL STYLE all of this on the eve of Zines & Feminism Symposium at CLP, featuring Sara Marcus, author of Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution. FREE. Sign up here: http://www.carnegielibrary.org/events/details.cfm?event_id=62858 *****************