Steel City Endorsement Meeting on March 28, 2010

Steel City Endorsement Meeting on March 28, 2010

If you care enough to read what is a significantly political LGBTQ blog, please care enough to help shape the LGBTQ endorsement.  Membership starts at $15 per person.  This is absolutely your best chance to make “one vote, one person” speak loud and clear about our community priorities.  On Sunday, March 28th Steel-City Stonewall Democrats […]

ACDC increases filing fees

ACDC increases filing fees

From the Post-Gazette: The Allegheny County Democratic Party jolted some of its potential candidates with a sharp increase in the filing fee levied on those seeking its committee members' endorsement for state legislative seats. In the last election cycle, the party demanded $750 of anyone seeking the party's official backing in state House races. This […]

Locally filmed AIDS tale premieres Saturday; Mt. Ararat Baptist Church partners with gay community

Locally filmed AIDS tale premieres Saturday; Mt. Ararat Baptist Church partners with gay community

Why Us? Left Behind and Dying premieres in Pittsburgh this weekend at the August Wilson Center.  From Tony Norman: “Why Us? Left Behind and Dying” [further described on C-1 of today's Magazine section] is a searing, heartbreaking look into the disproportionately high rate of AIDS/HIV in the African-American community. What makes this documentary unique among […]

Doesn't it just make you crazy?

Doesn't it just make you crazy?

Rumors are flying about the impending snowstorm scheduled for Monday.  2-3, 4-6, 8-12.  Does it really matter? Ick. I was trying to remember how I learned to drive in the snow.  Do you remember your first time behind the wheel in the snow?  Then I realize I've been driving for 24 years and start to […]

How I Spent My Tuesday Night

How I Spent My Tuesday Night

Tonight, I wrote down what other people had to say, carefully limiting my commentary to the occasional doodle on the edge of the page. Tonight, and for the next two months, I volunteered to be the interim-secretary for the Steel City Stonewall Democrats Board meeting.  I am not a board member, just a volunteer.  Ledcat […]

LGBTQ advocacy on federal hate crimes may assist in justice for Jennifer Daugherty

LGBTQ advocacy on federal hate crimes may assist in justice for Jennifer Daugherty

I was horrified to the point of weeping when I sat in my office and caught a PG tweet about the brutal violation of the life of Jennifer Daugherty. I've worked with adults with mental and developmental disabilities for several years so I got right away the depravity of how she was victimized and murdered.  […]

Things you should know about today!

Things you should know about today!

HuffPo has a good piece about Immigration Equality. Have you considered the impact second-class citizenship has on families where one parent faces the possibility of deportation?  Not because they are here illegally or have done anything wrong, but because heterosexual families can use a legal marriage to sponsor their loved one.  A documentary debuts today.  […]

Event – Be Steel My Beating Heart TONIGHT

Event – Be Steel My Beating Heart TONIGHT

This sounds like a good time. Be Steel My Beating Heart – Variety Show and Dance Party A Celebration of Non-Traditional Romance Call for Variety!! Sing! Dance! Music! Poet! Drag! Skit! Read! Demonstrate! Puppet! Pontificate! Ice Sculpture! You tell me!5 minutes or Less!Saturday February 13thBelvedere's in Lawrenceville 4016 Butler Street 8 -11 Variety Show11-2 am […]

Analytics

Analytics

I just peeked at my stats.  Wow, Facebook is driving 84% of your visits.  Wow. Since I push links through to Facebook through Twitter, I'd say social media is really an important tool to bloggers.  Another interesting result.  While combinations of “lesbian” and “Pittsburgh” in various forms are the most oft used keywords for search engines, […]

P.S. – Why I Didin't Go

P.S. – Why I Didin't Go

Recently, I was invited to attend a meeting with Onorato.  I asked if someone from the queer-identified community could attend and I was told no, it was invitation only.  Then I was told it was a meeting for people who supported Onorato.  I explored that a bit with others attending and decided that I didn't […]