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Pittsburgh Pride weekend sets attendance record
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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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Twitter storm hovers over Allegheny County Council race between Hallam, Doven
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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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Voters get to choose a new member of Pittsburgh City Council
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Jim Sheppard, 30, of Brookline, an analyst for Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner, who previously served as special assistant to former Mayor Luke Ravenstahl.
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When Pittsburgh flies rainbow flag, some see red
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The rainbow flag has been raised outside the City-County Building for the past two years during Gay Pride Week in June, said Jim Sheppard, special assistant to the mayor.
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Animal Rescue League gala grows in popularity
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The atmosphere of the party resembled that of a snow globe — shake it up and see what happens. “A lot more fun than most,” said Joe Vater, who was one of many alongside Judy Krause, Barton French, Marla andJohn Zerrer, Tim McVay andDavid Bush, Bill Chisnell, Jim Sheppard, Jared Pascoe and Levi Hahn.
