Celebrate Life, Celebrate Art 2009

Click on the image for more details.  I'm very pleased to share that Ledcat and I will be liveblogging from this year's auction.  So even if you can't attend, send in your donation to the very worthwhile Persad Center and be part of the action from your very own computer.  It is like our very […]

Pittsburgh’s Lambda Foundation Announces Grant Recipients

Pittsburgh’s Lambda Foundation Announces Grant Recipients

As you probably recall, Lambda recently celebrated 25 years of grant making, totalling nearly $1 million in support for Pittsburgh's LGBT community.  A few thousand at a time.  That's a lot of seeds, my friends. If you read through the list of grants, you'll see an interesting range in programs — HIV prevention, social and recreational […]

CP on Big Queer Rally; More on Club Pittsburgh

CP on Big Queer Rally; More on Club Pittsburgh

The City Paper's Marty Levine does his usual excellent job with in-depth coverage of the recent Big Queer Rally. Levine focuses on how the crowd responded to the participation of so many local politicians that many interpreted as a strong show of support for the LGBT community. But it was the number of elected officials […]

Today is World AIDS Day

I'm not sure what I have to offer on this topic tonight.  First, let me direct you to some other offerings. Pam's House Blend shares some comments from our President-Elect: Today, because of the work of people like you, women in Kenya who were widowed by the disease, and once shunned by society, have banded […]

Lambda Foundation — 25 Proud Years!

Lambda Foundation — 25 Proud Years!

I recently interviewed Lambda Foundation Executive Director Anne Bowman about the 25th anniversary of the Foundation.  25 years is quite a milestone in gay history and the well-being of our community foundation is something to be mindful of as we celebrate our way through June.  To purchase tickets for the Joan Rivers event, click here. Thank […]

Obituary – Randy Forrester

Obituary – Randy Forrester

With hopes of forgiveness from the Post-Gazette, this should be read by all. Randal G. “Randy” Forrester was 16 when he came out as a gay man to his parents, and likewise was open about his sexuality with his friends and classmates. That was in 1963, when society's attitudes about homosexuality were in the Stone […]

RIP: Pittsburgh’s Queer Community Loses Two Important Members

RIP:  Pittsburgh’s Queer Community Loses Two Important Members

Today brought sad news to, well, me and many other individuals in the LGBTQ community.  First, came word that one of the godfathers of Pittsburgh's modern queer community had passed away at the age of 60.  Randy Forrester (I'll insert the obit when it is published tomorrow) has been hailed for man things:  founding Persad […]

Pittsburgh is a great place to be gay

Pittsburgh is a great place to be gay

In honor of the Primary Pittsburgh Project,  I'd like to take a few inches of this blog to review why I think this is a great place for the LGBTQ/gay/queer community. First, the City of Pittsburgh has codified our civil rights and civil protections.  It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, […]

Steel-City Stonewall 2008 Slate and Board Elections

Steel-City Stonewall 2008 Slate and Board Elections

Now is the time to get involved.  Go to www.steel-city.org for information on how to join so you can vote for the new members of the Board AND the slate for 2008.  I just like to rhyme slate and 2008.  It has been a long day.  What can I say? Here's the press release for […]

Most people like gays sayeth the polls; Duquesne University flips off Planned Parenthood

Most people like gays sayeth the polls; Duquesne University flips off Planned Parenthood

Here's some good news from the Post-Gazette's wonderful L.A. Johnson < is L.A.a man or woman? does it matter other than for my pronoun selection?> A majority of U.S. citizens support equal treatment for gay people, a recent Harris Interactive poll reports. About 56 percent of straight Americans 18 and older believe people should be […]