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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…
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Shortly after Joanna Doven announced she would challenge progressive Democrat Bethany Hallam for her at-large seat on Allegheny County Council, local LGBTQ media outlet QBurgh published selected tweets from Doven’s personal Twitter account which it calls “anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ, and racist.”
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The Delta Foundation has formally withdrawn a federal trademark application following a protracted legal challenge launched by a rival LGBTQ organization. After the foundation announced plans to dissolve in August 2020, the foundation resurrected in Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ scene a year later when it was reported that it had filed an application to trademark the terms “Pittsburgh Pride”…
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Pittsburgh has hosted many Pride celebrations over the years, and now another one has been added to the list. Pride on the Shore brings the party to the city’s North Side at Stage AE, with some big-name performers alongside local talent.
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Last August, the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh voted to dissolve, citing financial difficulties and problems staying afloat after the cancellation of its Pittsburgh Pride parade and festival due to the pandemic. It was the end of a fairly long and controversial tenure for the LGBTQ nonprofit organization, which was mostly known for organizing the city’s…