Press

Upcoming Presentations

  • Stay tuned for the 10th iteration of MS89 coming soon…

Previous Presentations & Talks by the PQHP

  • MS89: GOGO with Joshua Sean Crawford, Dade Lemanski, and Peter Clay at Fungus Books (October 2024)
  • MS89: Queen of the MegaMix with Milan Tre’Zur in Memory of Jimmy Lewis at the Carnegie Museum of Art “Everlasting Plastic Exhibit” with Theodossis Issaias and Alyssa Velazquez (May 2024)
  • MS89: Wendi Miller Night with Cooper Miller at the Harris Theater (November 2023)
  • MS89: Norm Tapes with Clint Fisher at Contemporary Craft (July 2023)
  • MS89: Miss Leather 1997 with Tammy Resnik and Jenny Johnson at the Warhol Museum (June 2023)
  • MS89: Miss Fifteen Minutes of Fame Pageant with Jezebel D’Opulence at the Warhol Museum (February 2023)
  • MS89: Gay Cable Network and Pittsburgh City Council Hearings 1988 with Zed Armstrong and Michael Ferruci (December 2022)
  • MS89: PATF Valentine’s Day Fundraiser at Lucky’s February 1995 with Jazmine Butterfly (October 2022)
  • MS89: Miss Pittsburgh 1989 Screening and Talk with LaDonna LaMoore (September 2022)
  • “I Can’t Wait For You To Die: A Community Archives Critique”
    • Chatham College (October 2021)
    • Minneapolis College of Art and Design (October 2021)
    • Carnegie Mellon University Libraries (October 2020)
    • Tulsa Artists Fellowship (Fall 2020)
    • Cornell University Libraries (Fall 2020)
  • “Turn the Tape Recorder Off”
    • Anthropology of Mother: Culture of Care (April 2022)
    • University of Pittsburgh GSWS (Fall 2020)
  • “Out of the Archives: Pittsburgh Revealed” Three Rivers Film Festival, Pittsburgh, PA (November 2019)
  • Everything but the Interview: Part 1, Oral History Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. (October 2019)
  • Food for Thought: Hunt Library Diversity and Inclusion Lunch Forum, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (July 2019)
  • “I Want to Come Out Looking Glamorous One More Time,” Queering ALMS, Berlin, Germany. (June 2019)
  • “Discovering the Hidden: Making LGBTQ Collections More Accessible to Researchers,” Society of American Archivists, Austin, Texas. (July 2019)
  • Unitarian Universalist Congregation Stonewall 50th Anniversary Service (June 2019)
  • “Never Forever,” Personal Digital Archiving, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (May 2019)
  • “When I Saw Her, I Knew That Was What I Wanted,” American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. (November 2018)
  • “Queer Archives, Right Now” Workshop for TUFFEST 2018, Seattle, WA (July 2018).
  • “For the Record: Archival Video Screening and Talk from the Pittsburgh Queer History Project.” Rendezvous, Jewel Box Theater, Seattle, WA (July 2018).
  • Guest Speaker for Graduate Level Participatory Archives course, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (June 2018).
  • “Friends Making Records in Oral History,” Southwest Oral History Association, University of California at Fullerton Fullerton, CA. (April 2018)
  • Guest speaker for LIS 560: Collections Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. (April 2018)
  • “Goin’ [da:n] Liberty: Tracing White Pittsburgh English in the PQHP Archives,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Hershey, PA. (April 2018)
  • “Lives of Their Own,” Presentation and video screening, Pittsburgh Underground Film Festival, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. (August 2017)
  • “Race and Authenticity in LGBT Archival Practice,” Archives Education and Research Institute, Toronto, ON. (July 2017)
  • “Archiving with a Community: Lessons from the Pittsburgh Queer History Project,” Guest lecture for MTD 6601.21: Archives in Thought and Practice, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (July 2017)
  • “Goin’ [da:n] Liberty: Tracing White Pittsburgh English in the PQHP Archives,” Deep Dish Lecture Series, Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona. (April 2017)
  • “Dubious Man of the Year: The Story of Tex Gill, Pittsburgh’s Red Light District and the implications of 1980s Urban Renewal,” Deep Dish Lecture Series, Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona. (March 2016)
  • “Voicing Racial Segregation in the Pittsburgh Queer History Project Archives,” Oral History Association, Long Beach, CA. (October 2016)
  • “Black Trans Oral Histories in the Pittsburgh Queer History Project Archives,” Trans*Studies Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. (September 2016)
  • “Walk the Walk: Black Trans Oral History and Data Discrimination,” Society of American Archivists, Atlanta, GA. (August 2016)
  • “A Member in Good Social Standing: Pittsburgh’s Gay and Lesbian Social Clubs, 1960-1990,” Gay American History at 40, The New School, New York, NY. (May 2015)
  • “A History of Queer Pittsburgh,” Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, Pittsburgh, PA. (March 2015)
  • “Dante ‘Tex’ Gill: Dubious Man of the Year,” Moving Trans History Forward, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. (March 2015)
  • “PQHP: Cataloguing Ephemeral LGBTQ Collections,” Time and Space Studio, Carnegie Mellon University School of Art. (November 2014)
  • “The $10,000 Woman: Trans Artifacts in the PQHP Archives,” Guest lecture for Dr. Leah DeVun, Rudgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. (November 2014)
  • “Lucky After Dark: Queer History and Historical Traces of the AIDS Epidemic,” Guest lecture for graduate seminar in Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (October 2014)
  • “Doing Queer Public History and Archives,” Guest lecture for gender & women’s studies undergraduate course, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (September 2014)
  • “Queer After Hours,” Queer Practices, Places, and Lives, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (May 2014)
  • “Lucky After Dark: Building the Pittsburgh Queer History Project Archives,” Radical Archives, New York University, New York, NY. (April 2014)
  • “Lucky After Dark: Geneologies of Queer Nightlife and Upcoming Exhibition,” Artist-in-Residence Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University. (April 2014)
  • “HMU at the Social Club,” Trans-Q LIVE, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. (September 2013)
  • “Pittsburgh’s Gay and Lesbian Social Clubs: A Queer Archeology of Pittsburgh,” Clash Zones: Identities in (R)evolution, Cambridge, MA. (April 2013)

The Pittsburgh Queer History Project on WESA 90.5 Pittsburgh’s NPR Station!

“The Confluence” 90.5 WESA NPR – Cruze Bar Celebrates Its ‘Last Dance’

“Inventing Pittsburgh” 90.5 WESA NPR- Gay Social Club History with Harrison Apple, Tim Haggerty, and Douglas Rehrer

“Essential Pittsburgh” 90.5 WESA NPR- LGBT History Month Interview with PQHP Co-Director Harrison Apple

The Pittsburgh Queer History Project in the News!

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: An an archive documents the partying and the pain

Pittsburgh city Paper: Pittsburgh Queer History Project Magazine

Pittsburgh CityPaper: Lucky After Dark

Keeping Lucky’s Memory Alive in a Featured Obituary from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh City Paper: One More Time, Old School Ball

Electronic Beats: Before Hot Mass, The Man Behind Gay Pittsburgh’s Nightlife

Electronic Beats: How America’s Stand Out Party “Hot Mass” is Changing Pittsburgh