onQ: A More Tolerant, Inclusive City

These two shorts videos, produced by WQED, Pittsburgh's PBS station, ask important questions about what it takes for a community to be tolerant and accepting enough to retain and attract GLBT residents in order to ensure long-term viability for the area's social, economic, and cultural life.

Venango County too must start grappling openly with such issues in order for it to be relevant in 21st Century America.

Video 1: Celebrate Life, Celebrate Art

A photographer from the North Side who's lived with HIV for 23 years, and a painter from North Oakland who has tested negative - also for 23 years. They are just two of many artists donating work to a cause that helps countless people. OnQ contributor Dave Crawley tells the story of a group called Persad and its art auction that takes place at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Video 2: Discussion of GLBT Pittsburgh

OnQ host Chris Moore and guests Joy Royes, Gary Van Horn, Betty Hill, and Darrell Philips discuss the current state of life in the Pittsburgh region for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community, as well as, the challenges, advances, setbacks they may face.