SisTers PGH Founder and Executive Director Ciora Thomas wrote the following on being highlighted in the Heinz History Center's exhibit "A Woman's Place: How Women Shaped Pittsburgh." "Another one for the history books. A Black Trans woman and her work displayed in the Heinz History Center for the first time while she's alive is ICONIC! I'm truly grateful to the team at the History Center, especially DaNia Childress, for taking the time to listen. Listening can be one of the most potent and liberating tools of storytelling.

We are thrilled to announce that this year's People's Pride host is the one and only TS Madison! TS Madison is an absolutely change-maker. With the reality show The TS Madison Experience, she became the first Black Trans woman to star in and executive produce her own reality series. She is the perfect star to lead us through our day of entertainment and magic on June 30.

If you haven't seen the news, the Senator John Heinz History Center will be featuring an exhibit featuring SisTers PGH Founder and Executive Director Ciora Thomas and her tireless work for the TGNC community.

From SisTers PGH: We want to give a huge shout-out to Stonewall Sports Pittsburgh, whose members raised $4,000 to support our organization! We cannot do what we do without community. It truly takes a village.

We are pleased to announce that People's Pride 2024 will take place on Sunday, June 30, and will relocate to Turner Elementary School in Wilkinsburg.

We started People's Pride PGH in 2017 to center the most marginalized within the LGBTQ+ community. For too long, Pride events in the Pittsburgh area, like many across the country, did not prioritize community. Instead, they prioritized corporations.

SisTers PGH is proud to announce that registration is open for this year's People's Pride Parade and Music Festival! The fun-filled event will be held on Sunday, June 25, 2023.

Last Thursday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a total ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender children, including puberty blockers and hormone treatments to treat any underlying gender dysphoria cause. Surgeries, which were rare in Tennessee, are also banned.

SisTers PGH is proud to announce that registration is officially open for this year's People's Pride Parade and Music Festival! The fun-filled event will be held on Sunday, June 25, 2023.

As we return home from the Creating Change 2023 Conference, held in San Francisco and organized by the National LGBTQ Task Force, there is a lot for our board and our community to reflect on moving forward.

February 20, 2023 - We at SisTers PGH are proud to be joining a coalition of trans, nonbinary and intersex activists attending Creating Change in organizing a direct action at tonight's closing plenary.

TGNC Youth Collective is a space where young TGNC folk can express their creativity while creating a collaborative initiative that aims to improve service delivery outcomes for TGNC young people through the delivery of activities that build confidence, resilience, and leadership skills in TGNC youth. We are now accepting inquiries for our program, TGNC Youth Collective for 2023. Inquiries must identify as a trans woman, trans man, or gender, nonconforming sibling between the ages of 15-23 and live in Pittsburgh/Allegheny County.

Project T is Pittsburgh's Trans-Led Transitional Housing program, a project of SisTers PGH for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color who also identify as Trans, non-binary, and other gender-nonconforming individuals (TGNC) those among the most likely to experience housing insecurity because of discrimination, housing affordability, transphobia, and the barriers of access disparity. These issues were apparent prior to the COVID19 pandemic; however, the prevalence of these barriers has heightened as a result of the pandemic's consequences regarding housing, health, and safety. Project T - a radical vision of self-determination and housing justice.

(PITTSBURGH) - One of the foundational tenets of People's Pride PGH is supporting grassroots organizations and queer artists of color who are too often cast to the margins. We believe it is vital to use our dollars to support these folks, who find a way even when there is no way, preserving with boldness and individuality.

(Swissvale, PA) -- SisTers PGH, a nonprofit founded and operated by Black trans women and femmes, has been organizing People's Pride PGH March and Festival every year since 2017. Each year, we march to include local nonprofits, school districts, unions, and community members who have long been neglected by the former Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh and other organizations in the area. Our work to uplift the TGNC (Trans and Gender-Nonconforming) community of Allegheny County will continue next year. However, the People's Pride PGH 2022 March and Festival, which will take place on Sunday, June 5, will relocate to Swissvale, home of the SisTers PGH offices, community center, and many other Black and brown TLGBQIA folks.

Grow to Succeed is a project of Sisters Pgh run by Marilyn Blackburn a transwoman that lived and survived the experience of addiction she decided once she got clean and sober to do what was necessary to help her community this program helps with support groups one on one sessions and resources to help folks grasp their sobriety and keep it while learning the important tools they need for a successful road to recovery. On October 3rd Grow to Succeed will be having our very first We Do Recover Speaker Jam this is an event you will not want to miss.

SisTersPGH is looking for three BIPOC trans folk to go to Puerto Rico with SisTers PGH staff and leadership! The goal is to learn how to be a black trans leader in the nonprofit, social, and economic realms. We will be experiencing a series of trainings throughout the week of 10/13-10/19 that includes self care and rejuvenation time because black trans people deserve to rest and feel centered in a world of uncertainty. We are looking for applicants that are ready to take their voice and put it to action as a scholar of SisTers PGH, as trans leader that embodies the leadership mission, vison and values of SisTers PGH. Apply if interested in joining a black trans agency that fights to unite and demarginalize our black and brown trans communities of South Western Pennsylvania through advocacy, protest, housing, policy, legislation and/or city/state government.

With 1 in 5 adults facing eviction in the US since March, the Allegheny County CARES Act Rent Relief Program is established to assist individuals and households financially impacted by the COVID crisis pay their rent both in the past and moving forward.

In Tradition with Transgender Day of Remembrance SisTers PGH will be organizing TDOR in partnership with the Lgbtqia+ Advisory Council of Pittsburgh to celebrate the lives of those transgender people weve lost over the years, those that trailblazed through life living unappolegetically and honorably! Transgender Day of Remembrance: Pittsburgh will be held on Wednesday, November 20 from 7-9 PM at the Pittsburgh City-County Building, 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh PA.