You’ve been silent all day.Now it’s time to live out loud!End your Day of Silence by speaking up andsharing your story with us at GLSEN Pittsburgh’s annualBreak the Silence Party.Friday April 17 2009 – National Day of Silence • Meet new people,• enjoy free food, and• bring your ipod and we’ll play your favorite tunes! […]

Prediction time. Lots of little birdies have been whispering in my ears.  These predictions are based solely on my interpretation of recent events, historical behavior and the indignation of anonymous comm enters.  I hope I am wrong.  First, I predict Luke Ravenstahl will announce the formation of Pittsburgh first Mayoral LGBT Advisory Committee two weeks […]

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Dear Allegheny County, Please go read this account of how an incident of transphobia manifested itself as homophobia, almost as an incident of public accommodation.  http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/10382/national-car-rental-employee-to-trans-woman-customer-screwedup-man-faggot    (h/t to Pam's House Blend for a well-done exclusive story) I read this and think of those of you, friend and foe, who think that stripping the County anti-discrimination ordinance […]

Ledcat and I just returned from paying our respects to the slain Pittsburgh Police officers at the City-County building.  We waited in line for about 10 minutes.  We waited with officers from the Federal Reserve, the Port Authority and the state of Indiana amidst a sea of private citizens.  The atmosphere was solemn and reverential.  […]

Hmmmm.  4 states with legalized marriage.  Allegheny County still can't recognize that gay people suffer discrimination NOR deserve health insurance. Remember that the next time a large company picks somewhere else for their headquarters.  Southwestern Pennsylvania is not only behind Erie and State College, but we are behind Iowa.  Iowa.  Have you ever been to […]

http://www.pittsburghpassion.com/tickets.htm   Well, everyone the 2009 Pittsburgh Passion season is about to begin…    Our home opener is Saturday April 18th 2009 at 7:00 pm… All games are played at  North Allegheny High School (Newman Stadium) in Wexford!    Please see the schedule below and let me know…  Please come out and watch our run […]

Wow.  Yesterday was quite the day for the LGBTQ community.  First, the Vermont legislature overturned a veto of the marriage equality legislation, becoming the 4th state in the country to legalize same sex marriage.  That's almost 10% of the states.  Woo hoo. Plus, the District of Columbia Council voted to recognize same sex marriages performed […]

I understand that people are grieving the three officers who died on Saturday, especially as more information comes to light.  My heart breaks for the 911 dispatcher whose error in describing the situation proved fatal.  But I can't help wondering about all the systems and people who let Richard Poplawski down before he picked up […]

My partner works with the police so we've been very saddened by the weekend tragedy.  I have to admit that I sat on the edge of my sheet knowing that it could easily have been a friend of ours whose name was read at that 3 PM press conference.  So, having read the papers over […]