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Andi Whorehol performs among the crowd at the Be Gay Do Prom drag concert in Millvalle on April 14, 2023. (Photo by Amaya Lobato Rivas/PublicSource)

GENDER & IDENTITY

What’s a drag show like? A Millvale event had a prom vibe plus ‘overwhelming acceptance.’

by Photos and text by Amaya Lobato-Rivas May 12, 2023May 12, 2023

Days after the anti-drag agenda reached Harrisburg, performers and their audience outside of Pittsburgh put their spin on a high school rite.

Talia Paone, 27, sits on a red and white gingham blanket in St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in the Spring Hill–City View neighborhood on April 4, 2023. Since the beginning stages of her transition as a transgender woman, Talia frequently drove up to the cemetery to look at the view of the Downtown skyline and ponder about life — and death.

GENDER & IDENTITY

‘I’m living a life I never knew I was supposed to live.’ Pittsburgh’s trans community embraced ‘radical optimism’ in the face of opposition.

by Photos and text by Amaya Lobato-Rivas May 5, 2023May 5, 2023

Lee Brigido carries his foster child in his arms as he walks down a trail next to Mary Carroll in Frick Park on Saturday, March 18, 2023. When there’s cause to advocate for his foster kid, “I put my fighting gloves on a lot faster,” Brigido said, laughing. (Photo by Amaya Lobato-Rivas/PublicSource)

GENDER & IDENTITY

‘I put my fighting gloves on a lot faster.’ How understanding foster parents may mean ‘life or death’ for trans kids.

by Meg St-Esprit April 21, 2023May 1, 2023

Author Amanda Filippelli and her one-year-old son, River, on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Baldwin Borough. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

COMMUNITY STORYTELLING

‘We are held.’ At the end of a grief-shadowed pregnancy, an echo, then a life.

by Amanda Filippelli March 31, 2023April 7, 2023

The teens featured in the From the Source podcast Season Four

FROM THE SOURCE PODCAST

Youth voices unleashed: From the Source finale | S4, Ep. 12

by Jourdan Hicks March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

Allderdice High School students (from left to right) Syd Kaplan, Quincy Peterson, Jamie Coles, Amaya Dorman (sitting), Lena Gay and Natalie Lund in the school library. (Photo by Clare Sheedy/ PublicSource)

‘What about Black history bothers you?’ Allderdice students value AP African American Studies course criticized in other states

by Emma Folts and Lajja Mistry March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Luna Olivia Lindstrom sits in the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Photo by Amaya Lobato Rivas/PublicSource)

Updated: ‘Anti-trans’ speakers are coming to Pitt. Student safety and speech rights collide.

by Emma Folts March 25, 2023March 26, 2023

An illustration of a woman holding her hands open and looking to the sky on a yellow background.

GENDER & IDENTITY

Teaching myself to be unbothered: My Black Women’s History Month lesson 30 years in the making.

by First-person essay by Tahirah J. Walker March 24, 2023March 23, 2023

Sarah Gethers sits for a portrait in her apartment on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Bellevue. If I’m ‘the demographic corporate America wants so desperately,’ why am I constantly sidelined? Writes Gethers in her first person essay. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

GENDER & IDENTITY

If I’m ‘the demographic corporate America wants so desperately,’ why am I constantly sidelined?

by Sarah Gethers March 17, 2023March 19, 2023

Coley Alston, program director of Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation, sits for a portrait in their office on Monday, March 6, 2023, in East Liberty. Alston is an advocate for inclusive healthcare for all gender expressions. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

LGBTQ+ healthcare experiences inconsistent, lack some services for transgender Pittsburghers

by Punya Bhasin March 10, 2023April 12, 2023