The Holiday Pride: A Pittsburgh LGBT+ Community Museum Podcast

Pittsburgh has some very old organizations that have supported and aided LGBT+ people for decades. You can find more about these organizations on their home pages which you can find links to on our resource page: https://www.theholidaypride.com/resources-1

This episode features Pittsburgh's laws and ordinances focused on LGBT+ folks. Additionally, it features the most impassioned speech that the city's government has ever seen. Sources: https://rauhjewisharchives.org/entry/mark-pollock/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Madoff https://archive.org/details/Pghmunicipalrecord1990volA/page/n653/mode/1up?q=homosexual https://archive.org/details/Pghm...

Pittsburgh's drag scene has a long history and wonderful performers! Thanks to the Pittsbrugh Queer History Project, we have some audio and videos from a number of Drag Performances at the city's gay bars. Be sure to check out their archives to see the full videos used in this eipsode: https://github.com/happle-happle/pqhp-digital-archive/tree/main/collections ! Sources https://github.com/happle-h...

Dante 'Tex' Gill was the owner of multiple massage parlors in Pittsburgh and he won them from the mob after the parlor wars. Although he was caught eventually, he had a wild time as one of Pittsburgh's well known mobsters. Sources: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5924185/The-incredible-life-transgender-gangster-Mr-Gill.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_%22Tex%22_Gill https://isaa...

Take a look at Pittsburgh's Black Pride history and learn about the way the black queer community has celeberated itself. Sources: https://positivelypittsburgh.com/pittsburgh-pride-50-years-of-history/#:~:text=1973%3A%20Pittsburgh's%20first%2Dever%20Pride,and%20ended%20in%20Schenley%20Park . https://qburgh.com/pittsburgh-black-pride-thirty-years/ https://archive.triblive.com/news/pridefest-parade-...

Thursday Night Live (TNL) was a gay organization for white collar workers that turned into an AIDS activist group focused on education and providing support for those with AIDS. You can learn more at the Heinz History Center's Detre Library where TNL's archives reside.

Listen to Butch Izaj talk about Pittsburgh's Gay Bars and the anual Memorial and Labor Day picnics.

Pittsburgh was one piece of a larger national study that led to great advancements in AIDS research. Listen to how it came to be!

Welcome to season 2! This season is all about Pittsburgh's queer history. Tune in for some exciting stories!

This episode explores gender as a creation of society. This is a very theory heavy episode that may be hard to digest for some. Below are the more specific sources that I utilized throughout this episode. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender “Womanish Men and Manlike Women: The Native American Two-spirit as Warrior.” In Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 , by...

Learn about one of the first successful gay organizations in the nation, the Mattachine! Sources Gay American History by Crowell Publication https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/before-stonewall/one https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/blogs/its-zap#:~:text=First%20used%20by%20gay%20and,to%20think%20about%20an%20issue . Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America

This episode is about the Hijra of India and the differing gender norms of India versus Western Europe. Also, special guest, my cat Bella Bibliography Arondekar, Anjali. For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India . Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2009. Cohen, Lawrence. “The Pleasures of Castration: The Postoperative Status of Hijras, Jankhas, and Academics.” Sexu...

The stories of saints in this episode are from research I did a few years ago. I'm super excited to share them! I read the translations of the medieval text, the Aelfric Lives of Saints. Bibliography Aelfric. Aelfric’s Lives of Saints: Being A Set of Sermons on Saints’ Days Formerly Observed by the English Church. 2 vols. Edited by Walter W. Skeat. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1966. A...

This is a recording of the talk Al Preston gave at the DC History Center. If you want to see the presentation that goes with this talk, check out our youtube page here .

Listen in to my conversation with Thomas Rainbolt, Chatham University Alumnus. This episode is a little more conversational than the other oral histories we have presented thus far. You can also check out Thomas's thesis on the Resource Page of the Holiday Pride.

This episode covers some LGBT+ organizations that are in Pittsburgh. Check out our resource page on The Holiday Pride directly to know more!

This is just a brief talk about why we focus so much on oral history within the queer community.

Colonization, in all of its forms, has changed the world since it began. It's a complicated historical presence and here is a quick understanding of how it has effected the Queer community.

This episode is part one of a small series about the Golden Age of Piracy. The other two parts are incoming on the main website! Stay tuned!

Here is the second oral history from a Pittsburgh local. Scott Noxon helped run and owned a number of the bars in Pittsburgh. Here, you can hear him talk about what some of the bars were like on the inside and what dating and going to bars in Pittsburgh was like.

This episode is a bit sadder than the others. The AIDS crisis was a very diffcult and painful time for the queer community, but it is very important to discuss. Bibliography https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/about-hiv-and-aids/what-are-hiv-and-aids https://primaryimmune.org/understanding-primary-immunodeficiency/what-is-pi/immune-system-and-pi#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20cells%20of,types%2...

This episode is about Anita Bryant and her war on LGBT+ rights ordinances. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tHGmSh7f-0 https://blog.history.in.gov/tag/save-our-children-campaign/ https://epgn.com/2020/10/14/qanons-saveourchildren-slogan-has-long-anti-lgbt-history/ https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/1970s-christian-crusader-anita-bryant-helped-spawn-floridas-lgbtq-cult-rcna24215 http...

This episode is about gay bars nationally versus how gay bars functioned in Pittsburgh. Bibliography https://www.gaycities.com/articles/52483/10-oldest-iconic-gay-bars-us/#:~:text=The%20White%20Horse%20Inn%20%E2%80%93%20Oakland&text=The%20White%20Horse%20Inn%20in,gay%20bar%20in%20the%20US . https://daily.jstor.org/gay-bars-and-gay-rights/

Welcome folks! This is a small portion of a longer interview Silas Switzer completed with Chuck Honse, a gay bar owner in Pittsburgh. He owned four bars. These stories are mostly about the AIDS crsis and the Pitt Men's Study.

Welcome folks! This episode is about pronouns and how different languages handle them. Sources: http://www.pronouns.failedslacker.com/#zoological https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pronoun https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Gender_neutral_language_in_Hindi https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/15/guide-how-gender-neutral-language-is-developing-around-world/ https://www.abnrmljapan.com/blog...