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The parade itself saw over 103,000 of those attendees, said Jim Sheppard, co-chair of the Pittsburgh Pride Parade and co-creator of QBurgh, Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ news source. “We worked with a crowd control and security consulting firm to use drone footage, street level video and pictures to analyze and estimate the size of the crowd…
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Jim Sheppard and Jeff Freedman founded the Pittsburgh-based LGBTQ+ online and print magazine QBurgh in 2020 to provide LGBTQ+ news and community resources for readers in Western Pennsylvania. Freedman was one of the founders of the Steel City Softball League in the 1980s and has chaired the Pride parades for both Pittsburgh and Salt…
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After Doven’s past tweets were shared online, she took to Twitter to reply to the criticism. A contentious back-and-forth erupted between her and Jim Sheppard, who runs the online LGBTQ publication QBurgh and previously worked in the Ravenstahl administration at the same time as Doven. That spat only amplified the situation online, and several left-leaning accounts started to weigh in…