PRIDE GIVEAWAY – Enter for a Pair of Tickets to Renaissance City Choir #PghPride

Pride Renaissance City Choir giveaway

Saturday marks the kick-off of Pride month here in Pittsburgh and we are very excited to partner with Renaissance City Choir to give away a pair of passes to the very FIRST Pride event – their annual Pride Concerts. Join Renaissance City Choir for our 2019 Pride Concert: A Celebration of our Community of Singers! We […]

Review: Damien Jurado Performs in Pittsburgh

Damien Jurado

We sent Ledcat to review the Damien Jurado performance with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust – Sue I have listened to Damien Jurado on WYEP for years, but did not own any of his records and had never seen him in concert. I knew his music from the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country and knew it […]

Q&A with Dramaturg Clare Drobot on Her Role as Director of New Play Development with City Theatre

Michelle Drobot City Theatre

The final play in the 2018-2019 season of City Theatre is We Are Among Us, May 11 – June 2, 2019. With her military contractor career firmly behind her, single mother Laura finally has her son front-and-center in her life. But when a reporter appears demanding answers to a covered-up, decade-old story from her time in […]

50+ Pittsburgh Ways to Honor the 50th Legacy of Stonewall #PghPride

Stonewall 50th Anniversary Pittsburgh

The legacy of Stonewall’s 50th Anniversary is hotly contested, revised, and yet still remains vitally important to all of us LGBTQ people. I decided to create a list of 50 events and actions you can take to honor that legacy. These are not in any particular ranking nor chronological order. This list is meant to […]

Amy Ray Band Coming to Pittsburgh, June 4 at Club Cafe

Amy Ray Pittsburgh

  We’ve got AMY RAY of the Indigo Girls coming to town. Ray and her ace band will be in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, June 4 at Club Cafe touring for her acclaimed release, HOLLER.  Still thriving as one half of GRAMMY-winning folk duo Indigo Girls, Ray explores her Georgia roots  for a timely roots rock album that — as always with her — […]

Review: Indecent at the Pittsburgh Public Theater is Mesmerizing

It feels really important to clarify that I am not a theater critic. This is my feedback and perspective on the production of Indecent at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. It is running through May 19, 2019. So right off the bat I’m going to send you to read my Pittsburgh Current colleague Ted Hoover’s actual review […]

‘Indecent’ at Pittsburgh Public Theater Highlights Lesbian Love Story

Pittsburgh Public Theater Indecent

This looks to be a fascinating play with a powerful lesbian storyline making its Pittsburgh premiere at Pittsburgh Public Theater this weekend. The larger play is framed around an actual historical production of another play God of Vengeance. Our review will be posted early next week. Pittsburgh Public Theater is proud to present the Pittsburgh […]

Pittsburgh Underground [Queer] Film Festival – This Weekend!

The 3rd annual PUFF weekend is in a new locale at KST’s Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Avenue. A weekend of films, panels, parties, and the Assemble + PUFF QUEER ART & COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE. On April 26, at 7:30pm, PUFF opens with the regional premiere of KNIFE+HEART, a wry slasher film set in Paris, 1979, where […]

Tig, Ellen, and Hannah Walked Onto a Stage … and Wanda is Next

Recently, we decided to watch Ellen DeGeneres’ stand-up special on Netflix. Titled Relatable, we were so inspired by our lesbian sisterhood to watch the Tig Notaro special Happy to be Here. After that, we looked at one another and used our sapphic bond to agree that of course we must re-watch the Hannah Gatsby special Nanette  […]

Q&A with Dale Lazarov, a Gay Puerto Rican Comic Book Writer and Poet

Dale Lazarov 3 Rivers Comic Con

A few months ago,  my friend Joe Wos told me about his friend, Dale, a comic creator also known as the Stan Lee of Gay. Of course, I was interested and it turns out that Dale is coming to Pittsburgh May 11-12 for 3 Rivers Comic Con, so we set up a  chat. Dale is […]