The Holiday Pride:
A Pittsburgh LGBT+ Community Museum

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.

Many times, meeting one person can lead to meeting many others. We were able to speak to Clare Joyce, thanks to a previously made connection. We manage to talk about a lot of issues younger queer folk are facing.

The Gay Book of Lists is exactly as is written. A book of lists that involve gayness in many ways!

Bathhouses have been just as fundimental to the queer community just as much as bars. They're locations where people could be social, learn about their community, and organize activism.

Sassy Planet is a global guide to queerness in big cities. hidden gems and unexpected locations. They cover 40 cities across the world, including Pittsburgh!

'Gayborhoods' are a common sight in many cities. Not in Pittsburgh, however. Philadelphia, on the other hand, has it's own well known gayborhood. What makes a gayborhood and what makes a spread out community?

Forging Queer Leaders is a book about the theories around leadership and what makes a good leader. Specifically, what makes LGBT+ people good leaders.

A little look into the work we put into creating the gay bar walking tour and what's to come!

Gender Queer is a graphic non-fiction book that the author, Maia Kobabe uses to describe eir own gender struggles. It's a relatable read!

Talking about how Tom Wilson came to be interviewed by Al. His Oral History began to shape the Quiet Pittsburgh Oral History project.

Queer Religiosities is an introductory text that introduces the idea that queerness and religion have much more in common than they don't.

Reflecting on the relationship between religion and queerness.

It's rare for two books such as Real Queer America and In Search of Gay America to be so similar thirty years apart. What has changed in thirty years?

A look into the events that led us to interviewing Tim Ziaukas, a professor at the Univerity of Pittsburgh and founder of Pittsburgh's Thursday Night Live.

Paris is Burning is a classic piece of research for many queer academics. It showcases the lives of Drag Queens in New York from 1978 to 1989.

The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts is about Harvy Milk, the first elected openly gay offical in California. Shilts describes Milk's inspiring life and tragic death.

Our new Youtube Series, Artistic Activism, is relatively easy to make, and it's goal is to uplift more positive stories.