By Sue Kerr Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com For three years, I worked as a foster parent recruiter and trainer with one of the then-few secular foster care providers, Family Services…
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By Sue Kerr Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com My partner and I recently took a tour of the U.S. Brig Niagara in Lake Erie. Our weekday group was about 15 people…
By Sue Kerr Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com I have a confession. I once fell asleep at a Bruce Springsteen concert. I wasn’t drinking alcohol or particularly tired. But, I nodded…
By Sue Kerr Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com One of my favorite t-shirts reads “Fat, Gay, & in the Way” in glittery gold letters set against a lovely dark shade of…
Pittsburgh Current Columnist Sue Kerr info@pittsburghcurrent.com On August 14, 2018 the Grand Jury Report was released. Over 1000 victims at the hands of more than 300 priests across six dioceses. …
By Sue Kerr Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com This spring, one of the feral cats we had been feeding turned up with three, then four, then five kittens. They were exactly…
By Sue Kerr Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com I’ve been blogging about the Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Group since it was first proposed under then-Mayor Luke Ravenstahl in the fall of 2008….
By Sue Kerr Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com I’ve been trying to figure out why decisions by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) and the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum to cancel their…
By Sue Kerr Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com When I was notified in early May that my lesbian blog had won a national award from GLAAD, I anticipated local media interest…
By Sue Kerr Pittsburgh Current Columnist info@pittsburghcurrent.com When Julie Cantrell learned that the best way to address the lack of statewide nondiscrimination protections for the LGBTQ community was to work…