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Portland’s New Pride Film Festival Announces Full Lineup A gay hairdresser on a hero’s journey, cottagecore Australian lesbians, a forgotten Filipina-American punk band, and more. By Conner Reed 5/13/2021 at 4:15pm We’ve been saying it all year: life would be better if we could watch gay movies outside. Well, at long last, it looks like that needle has begun to move.  Smack in the middle of Pride month, the directors of QDoc will produce a brand-new, two-day festival at Zidell Yards called Pride Pics. Tickets for the fest—which runs June 16 and 17—went on sal...

Without a federal or state standard for PFAS contamination, Pennsylvania lawmakers are pushing President Biden to direct the Air National Guard to withdraw an appeal to a permit capping PFAS limits at 70 parts per trillion.  The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in March approved a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit capping levels of the unregulated chemicals found at the former Willow Grove Air Naval Station to 70 parts per trillion.  Water discharged from the former base goes into an unnamed tributary of Park Creek, which then flows into Neshaminy C...

Subscribe As legislators in Harrisburg gallop toward a final budget for fiscal year 2021/22, one four-legged industry is fighting hard against Gov. Tom Wolf's proposal to redirect its funding elsewhere. The Pennsylvania horse industry has benefited greatly from the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Trust Fund, and they are not about to let that money go in the home stretch. The fund first got its shoes as the casino industry began growing in Pennsylvania. It was codified as a quasi-governmental fund in 2017. What is the governor proposing for the racehorse industry, and what effect might it...

/ Sandusky-born filmmaker Todd Stephens uses his hometown as the backdrop for his fictionalized memoir "Swan Song." The fictionalized memoir centers around an older gay man in Stephen’s hometown of Sandusky exploring how life has changed over the decades. Just like the first two films in Stephens’ Ohio Trilogy, “Edge of 17” and “Gypsy 83,” “Swan Song” is a coming-of-age story set in Sandusky, except this film trades in youthful revelation for a sense of rediscovery. “It's based on a man that I grew up sort of idolizing when I was a kid, and his name was Pat Pitsenbarger,”...

How would you feel if someone you considered a friend suddenly turned against you? Not only that but what if they did everything they could to destroy your career? If you want an answer, just ask several current (and former) Republican state lawmakers who have bent over backward to support government unions only to see those same unions’ leaders turn around and spend big in elections to defeat them. Like many devious friends, the union leaders haven’t betrayed lawmakers to their faces. Instead, they’ve done it through a front group that hides its major funding sources and explo...