Pittsburgh drag scene adjusts to new normal
By Charlie Taylor, Culture Editor
June 23, 2020
Most drag queens and kings earn money and practice their craft by performing at bars, which closed March 15 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the City’s drag scene has far from disappeared.
Slaying the Pittsburgh drag scene
By Alexa Marzina, Staff Writer
February 14, 2019
While drag seems to have a very sexualized culture in mainstream media, it is just another form of performing arts, and it is popular in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie library hosts drag queen story hour
By Cassidy Power | Staff Writer
March 12, 2018
Akasha L Van-Cartier had a message for the 130 children and parents that attended the Carnegie Library’s Drag Queen Story Hour Saturday. “You can be anything that you want to be, at any time you want to be it, and if you want to change what you want to be halfway through being it — do that,”...
Kings and queens captivate audience
By Nina Kneuer | For The Pitt News
September 17, 2017
A runway extended out from the William Pitt Union assembly room stage, lined with rainbow-colored Christmas lights and framed by chairs on either side. It was a setup fit for kings and queens — drag kings and queens, that is. The Office of First Year Experience and Pitt Rainbow Alliance presented Panther Dra...