The Holiday Pride:
A Pittsburgh LGBT+ Community Museum

And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts is a near day by day recount of the beginning of the AIDS crisis. Shilts was one of the few journalists who followed AIDS’s progress from the moment it was recognized as a dangerous disease. This book covers the background struggles doctors and gay activists faced in order to achieve any progress with the disease, the government, and each other.

A look into the process of the creation of a physical exhibit.

A little bit about the making of Saints Game.

A quick look at the conversation occuring about Donny's Place, a little late to the game.

A recap of the Holiday Pride's poster presentation at Duquesne University's Research Symposium.

Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin is an excellent read for anyone interested in why bars are so important to the queer community.

Exciting news! The Holiday Pride will be presenting in DC this April!

This is a review of the book "The Transexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.

Silas talks about work he's done previously about Pittsburgh's queer community.

This isn't quiet a book review. This book has a special place in my heart and I wanted to reflect on what it means to me.

A look into the mechanics that went into the creation of our pirate DND module!

In Search of Gay America by Niel Miller is a very fun and interesting read about the 'common gay' in America.

What is public memory and what does it matter? This is just a brief discussion on the road blocks to studying history.

Voyant is a text-mining tool that is very useful for understanding large bodies of work. We take a look at it as a tool for history.

This is a book review of Susan Stryker's Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution.

A little peek behind the curtain on how we came to interview Scott Noxon.

Making Gay History is a collection of oral histories from major players in the history of the queer movement in the US.

By Al Preston             Lesbians have often been hidden from the narrative of queer history in America. Many of the early movements...

By Al Preston             A huge theme of this project and of queer history in general is discovery of identity. Many queer historians...

By Al Preston When I first learned about the 1969 Stonewall riots, I heard the story I’m sure many have learned. Yet another police raid...