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The Northside Chronicle
Volume 34 Issue 6 - FREE -
Social media blitz helps keep gus & yia yia’s open, page 20
Photo by Neil Strebig
summer restaurant openings, page 4
Photos by Nick Eustis
By Nick Eustis Every year, hundreds of thousands partake in the annual Pittsburgh Pride celebration. Flags are waved, protest signs are raised, stripes of all colors are seen parading amidst festive supporters. Couples are spotted walking hand-in-hand celebrating their love, marching alongside
is Delta Foundation doing enough outside of PGH Pride? their fellow Pittsburghers – everyone, being themselves. According to the City of Pittsburgh an estimated 175,000 people packed into downtown last year for Pride in the Streets, a multi-day event celebrating National LGBT Pride Month in June. It’s an event that has increased in popu-
larity every year since its inception in the 1970s. The driving force organizing these huge street festivals is the Delta Foundation, one of the largest LGBT advocacy groups in Western Pennsylvania. From their home base in Allegheny West, they coordinate Pride in the Streets,
the largest Pride celebrating the event in the region. progress the comWhile mostly conmunity has made, sisting of public fes- while also rememtivals and concerts, bering the work the event culminates still to be done. in the Pittsburgh Last year, howEquality March. On ever, the Equality the last day of Pride, March caused a the LGBT commufirestorm among nity and its allies the LGBT commumarch through the nity. The ambers streets of downtown are still simmering. Pittsburgh, Continued Delta, Page 6
INSIDE ISSUE Newsletters – Page 3 Leo./Siempre Algo – Pg 4 Sports/Boxing – Pg 5 YINZburgh Comics – Pg 7
PWSA “Lead Map” – Page 8 Propel NS – Page 9 RL Garden Column – Pg 10 Outside Guide – Page 14 Gus & Yia Yia’s – Pg. 20 Real Estate – Pg 22 Education/YMCA – Pg 26 Community News – Pg 27