Penn Dot Chemicalizes NorthSide Neighborhood

Penn Dot Chemicalizes NorthSide Neighborhood

Ah spring … the birds chirping, the children playing and the smell of toxic weed killer wafting from the PennDot owned properties behind our house in Manchester …   This is their idea of property maintenance.  I waged a year long battle to get them to cut the weeds and clean up the trash.  They […]

Pgh Native Comes Home To Chat About Gay Marriage

Pgh Native Comes Home To Chat About Gay Marriage

A not to be missed gay event …read what the PG has to say about it.    The Women’s Law Project and Persad Center present An Evening with Evan Wolfson, author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People’s Right to Marry WOMEN’ S RIGHTS SEMINAR SERIES Sponsored by Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:30 […]

Blog Thoughts

Blog Thoughts

First, someone from U-Haul's corporate headquarters came to my site because I said I need a U-Haul to escape Luke Ravenstahl.  That's just really funny.  I've noticed that the Carnegie Library does an occasional blog search for themselves, but U-Haul?  How many times could someone mention it in a blog?  Seriously. Second, the burgh report has […]

Reason #117 I Need a U-Haul

Reason #117 I Need a U-Haul

In today's PG, Rich Lord takes a peek at the politics behind street paving.  It don't look good for many of self-enamored local favorites like Darlene Harris and her merry band of self-defined pavement analysts.  But here's the doozy.  “I would argue that it's not political. I haven't seen the paving list yet,” said Mayor […]

Bill Peduto and I are just friends

Bill Peduto and I are just friends

I promised myself I wouldn't ramble on tonight, partly because what I have to say probably isn't original and partly because Thom Hartmann's latest book is beckoning to me from my night stand.  Was that just a name drop?  Because I totally meant it to be.  Ever since I read “What Would Jefferson Do?” and had […]

Buffy Sing-A-Long This Friday — How Very Gay!

Buffy Sing-A-Long This Friday — How Very Gay!

Sobering news for gays in Iraq

Sobering news for gays in Iraq

Courtesty of Pam's House Blend: “In the past three months, more than 30 gays have been executed in Baghdad. The bodies have been found tortured, mutilated – sometimes with signs of rape,” said Mustafa Salim, spokesman for the Rainbow for Life Organisation (RLO), a Baghdad-based gay rights NGO. “Notes were found near some of the […]

Two Innocent Men and a Gay Basher: 60 Minutes Lifts Up the Poor Persecuted White Men

Two Innocent Men and a Gay Basher:  60 Minutes Lifts Up the Poor Persecuted White Men

Tonight, Lesley Stahl “sat down” with the three former Duke University lacrosse players who were not charged with the rape of a woman who had been hired as an exotic dancer by their team.  Surely, you've heard of it. Two of the three men came across as having learned some painful lessons from the year […]

Who is lesbian comedian Poppy Champlin? PghLesbian will have the scoop …

Who is lesbian comedian Poppy Champlin?  PghLesbian will have the scoop …

I emailed Poppy to ask for an interview and she agreed.  Also, we plan to sit down soon with Lance Friedman, co-chair for Steel City Stonewall Democrats and discuss all the changes since founding board member Scott Safier has moved on to other things (and out of state).  Should be an interesting chat in both […]

Pittsburgh Participation in Day of Silence

Pittsburgh Participation in Day of Silence

April 18 is the 11th Annual Day of Silence. The Day of Silence is an annual event held to bring attention to anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools. Students and teachers nationwide will observe the day in silence to echo the silence that LGBT and ally students face everyday. In it's 11th year, the […]