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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Go ahead. Give it a taste. You know you want to. Well. We survived. The NFL Draft came. It saw. It absolutely took over Downtown and the North Shore. Downtown was packed. The traffic was… not that bad ...

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 ...

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 ...

Touching down in Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft? Between the jerseys, the chaos, and the riverfront crowds, there’s a whole other scene waiting for you. Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ bars offer everything from ...