The Holiday Pride:
A Pittsburgh LGBT+ Community Museum

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words and Gay Worlds is a book doing many things; educating, biographing, and memoralizing.

Podcast Episode: COMING SOON Welcome folks! I’m Al and this is the podcast of The Holiday Pride: A Pittsburgh LGBT+ community museum. Warning: This is a mature movie with many mature themes. There is discussion of assault, rape, and other violence against women. There are uncensored images of gentile and naked bodies as well. While this review will not have anything explicit, be warned when approaching the film itself. I knew about a lot of LGBT+ movi

Part 2 of our discussion around a 'collective queer identity' or 'culture' that can be seen within the words written by LGBT+ folks.

La Cage Aux Folles is a classic stage production for the LGBT+ Community. It has been adapted to the screen twice, and these are both of those version.

Over the decades, as LGBT+ folks have written more and more about themselves and their experiences, authors have wondered if there is a collective queer identity. We've decided to take a stab at the question!

Fried Green Tomatoes was more than a 1991 movie. It was also a 1987 novel that the movie was based off of. We take a look at both and see what stayed and what changed.

The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories edited by Peter Burton contains 47 short stories by and for gay men. Here, we'll only talk about 8!

Making Love is from 1982 and is one of the first films to depict LGBT+ characters in a favorable way after the Production Codes of Hollywood loosened their tight grip on what stories movie studios could produce.

Fanfiction has been the past time for fans of just about every kind of media for a long time. Recently, it has become a sensation to the wider public, for queer fans, it has been a key part of their internet life.

Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood explores the lives and work of the LGBT+ people behind Hollywood's most successful films. The LGBT+ writers, directors, actors, set designers, costumers, editors, and prop makers who made Hollywood what it is today.

Love, Simon was the first movie dedicated to LGBT+ teens. While there have been reasonable criticisms made about the film, it's a very important peice of media for LGBT+ youth as it's a perfectly fine rom com.

How did Pride 2026 fair? Pretty well! We went to two events with plans for the future!

Carol is a 2015 film based on the book, The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. The book alone was unusal for it's time but the movie was highly anticipated. In this episode, we compared the two.

We were very honored to be asked to help the Wendi Miller Legacy Project create their open house exhibit.

We've spent a lot of time talking about the historical relivance of LGBT+ folks in media, now we wanted to talk about the actual media! Heated Rivalry became very popular very quickly when it came out, so enjoy this review!

This episode is a bit more personal, as I have grown up alongside the internet for the most part. Being LGBT+ has always been hard, but the internet has certainly changed how we all live.

The Price of Salt is a lesbian novel by Patricia Highsmith from the 1950s. Unlike many of the other lesbian stories of the time, this book had a happy ending.

An update on our progress with the interactive bar map and a fun opportunity for Pride Month!

By Al Preston Sometimes when I’m driving around the city, I like finding new routes and don’t mind it too much if I make a wrong turn. Pittsburgh’s roads are convoluted and twisting but they are also pretty forgiving when someone makes a mistake. I do love finding new weird roads and paths when I drive. Shortly after we moved to the city, I was driving my wife to work, and I realized that one of the houses we were stopped next to had a massive concrete

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyff Hall is a relatively famous novel about lesbians from the 1920s. Many LGBT+ activists have read this book and talked fondly about it.