Lots of good information here.  I still haven't had any feedback from local Dems on the PG linkages of Rob McCord with Wall Street.  Also, while Jason Altmire does support ENDA, he was willing to vote for the non-inclusive version.  Of course, it is a no brainer that he is better than Melissa Hart, but […]

As I've written, I have election fatigue.  Tony Norman persuaded me that Obama “has this” so I'm sort of lacking in the last minute urgency department, probably b/c I have urgent stuff happening on a personal level and there's only so much urgency to go aroud.  Intellectually, I have some sense of guilt when I […]

Today is my mum's 66th birthday or, as we like to say, her 1year anniversary of being eligible for ACCESS.  She's an ACCESS goddess now.  

Here's a good site for an update on Prop 8, the California amendment that would make gay marriage illegal. Pam's House Blend has an interesting post about Barack Obama's Caucasian family. From PageOneQ:     And, finally, this from the Bay Area Reporter's Political IQ column:   I'm not joking when I say we need […]

Due to my radiator malfunction in Uptown during the afternoon, I was unable to attend the Electile Dysfunction event last night.  Missing Lynn Cullen was a definite downer.  Spending hundreds for the repair is another.  Sigh.  I keep repeating that I got luck enough to be able to pull into a parking space before the […]

This ran in Thursday's PG.  Kudso to Lee Marcuzzi of Shaler for noting a LGBTQ positive story.  What a wonderful article. (“Taking center stage,” Oct. 23.) It is so refreshing to see an article about drag queens and kings that is not biased and discusses the true talent and work that these performances require. As […]

h/t to local writer Jane Muder for pointing out another local queer blog …. http://www.tonystimeout.outonline.com/ written by OUT publisher Tony Molnar-Strejcek. It is more of a personal blog than a newsy blog, but it is good to have another perspective on life in queer Pittsburgh out there.  I had suggested to Jane that it would be […]

This little item in the Valley Independent caught my eye. Abigail Begandy doesn't mind marching to the beat of her own drum. Begandy, 16, a junior at Ringgold High School, recently was sworn in as a junior firefighter for the Monongahela Fire Department. She was sworn in Oct. 7 and became the department's third female […]