Birth Control, Catholic Employees and Cut The Crap

For crying out loud … Christian hysterics across the land are wringing their hands because they might be required to provide access to contraception under the health insurance offered to their employees. They had a one year exemption to figure it out and now they are crying “religious persecution” and typical bullshit. From Feministing: President […]

Housing Discrimination Protections from HUD

From the Washington Blade: HUD is set to unveil final regulations that will protect up to 43% of Americans with regard to access to HUD subsidized programs, from rental vouchers to mortgage programs. Most interesting: During a news conference in January 2011, Donovan said the rule also requires applicants seeking federal housing grants to comply […]

Guest Blogging?

Well, why not? My recent heady experience of receiving one comment on my Bilerico post made me realize I should open things up here a bit and get some other voices. So I’d like to invite you to submit a guest post. It can be a one time post. It can be recurrent. It can […]

Take Our LGBTQ Social Media 101 Survey!

I am personally fascinated by the intersection of social media with social justice. From the use of Twitter during the recent uprisings throughout the Middle East to the Occupy movement, it is all abuzz. But on a microlevel, I have people say “I get like 4 links to your posts every day by Twitter, Facebook, […]

I am Team Bilerico

OK, well that’s a bit of an overstatement.  Here’s my official bio. I like the aesthetic touch of my neighbors step ladder in the background. Very lesbian. Even if he is a straight white guy who does most of our odd jobs. Still … But I was pretty pleased when Bil Browning mentioned that I […]

Keystone/GayLife Newsletter Accepting LGBT of the Year Nominations

We’ve been repeatedly nominated and honored to be named “Lesbian of the Year” in 2010. Please make your nominations. If you are a fan of this blog, you  can nominate us for “Lesbian of the Year” “GLBT Person of the Year” or “Favorite GLBT Media Publication” — it would be awesome to see a blog […]

Show Your Support for W PA Girl Scouts and Trans Youth

Sign up on Facebook to support our local trans youth with the purchase of one extra box of Girl Scout cookies.    

Pgh Business Rankings on HRC Corporate Index

The Post-Gazette picked up the rankings of local companies on the HRC Corporate Index for 2012. HRC lauds K&L Gates as a best LGBT workplace Downtown-based K&L Gates law firm got top marks as a best workplace for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, according to a survey by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in […]

Dan Savage, The Slog Raise Nearly $30,000 for Food Pantry – Make Sure People KNOW LGBTQ Folks Welcome at Pgh Pantries

I was poking around tonight and found this series of posts on The Slog website. I love that people can win dinner with Dan Savage for donating to a hunger relief organization. I would donate and I work for a hunger relief organization. I love that they picked up on the article in Slate about […]

I Hereby Resolve … Well, I’m Gonna Give It a Shot

Remember when I lost 50 lbs in 2010? Yeah, that was great. Well, it was sort of great because it turns out I lost some of that weight due to an underlying medical condition. Not so great. So 2011, I spent healing. I’m much better. But I’ve gained a little less than 20 lbs back. […]