2022 - People's Pride Presents Swissvale Pride
June 5, 2022
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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.
People’s Pride PGH 2022 March and Festival will take place on Sunday, June 5 is relocating to Swissvale, home of the SisTers PGH offices, community center, and many other Black and brown TLGBQIA folks.
In 2022, our focus for the annual march and festival will be around improving Swissvale legislation, police training, advocacy, and inclusivity as we return to the streets after two trying, devastating years of the COVID-19 pandemic, which continues to impact primarily Black, brown, and other historically marginalized communities. This will be the first Pride event ever held in Swissvale and we look forward to working with our partners to keep spreading the message of inclusivity and the history of Pride. We encourage our supporters to join us as this is the time to continue unifying and educating our county and city.
You can view the planned march route, which begins at Edgewood Town Center at 10 AM and will end at Dickson Elementary School, where the festival will be held until 9 PM.
Scroll down to learn about the 2022 artist lineup and our sponsors.
2022 People’s Pride Parade Route
Musical Guests
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Shea Diamond
ShaGasyia "Shea" Diamond (born March 17, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, and transgender rights activist. Her music is chiefly soul and R&B, and includes elements of blues, rock, hip-hop and folk. Her songwriting ability has been described as "demonstrating a rare gift to portray raw, dynamic emotion in a way that moves the body as much as the spirit." Her influences include Whitney Houston and Tina Turner.
Sidney Yaphit
Born and raised in Homewood, PA this artist of many mediums strives to utilize their platform to uplift his communities. As an LGBT artist, they are not new to the struggles, and stigma being the kind of artist they aspire to be, and the music and art that they aspire to create. They hope to spotlight the struggle of a straight presenting male, in the hip hop industry, and make music for people like them!
Amongst many mediums, this artist expresses themselves through music, visual art, engineering and entrepreneurship. They hope to inspire people like where he's from, and people with their background, to do anything they think might make them happy, regardless of outer stimuli.
"Making hip hop as an LGBT man, in a straight presenting relationship can be hard, and I've had my fair share of being looked at funny, or even being looked at by people in my own community who think I'm not bi enough, or I'm not straight enough. But I'm still here. And I'm standing on ten toes. I hope to show others that they are their own validation, and can do anything they want, and be anything they want." -Sidney Yaphit
Cue Monteiro
Cue is a HIGH-LEVEL and high-energy singer/performer. From his quick dance breaks to his powerful ballads, Cue undoubtedly is going to have you moving and grooving in your seat. From ballads to uptempo records Cue’s unique approach to the stage is quite literally something to remember.
Cue is a singer, songwriter, and performing artist extraordinaire. Cue has worked with and been produced by such musicians as Walter Barnes Jr., bass guitarist for “Babyface” Edmonds, great instructors of Berklee College’s City Music Program and in his earlier years of performance, has performed on programs with such greats as “The Family Stone” at The Berklee College Music Gala in 2015. He continues to work with many of the brightest from Berklee College of Music and Boston Academy.
Cue released his first single “Say You Love Me” in 2017. In the last two years he has performed at a plethora of venues in the Akron to Cleveland Metro Areas and The Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh. He continued to release his own brand R&B/Pop sounds earlier in 2021, at the release of his first official music video “This Feeling” and soon after, “Later.” In November of 2021, Cue released his 3rd song, entitled “Life.” Cue can be heard on iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon Music.
Seann Miley Moore
Boy from OZ Seann Miley Moore hit the London scene with a bang appearing as a finalist on the UK’s X Factor 2015! Mentored by Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw, Seann appeared on the X Factor arena tour performing nationwide at venues including the iconic O2 Arena, London, where he got to perform his standout renditions of Queen’s “Show Must Go On” and Bowie’s “Life on Mars.”
Following the sold out tour, SMM appeared across the UK/European Gay Pride Circuit headlining major cities including London Pride where he was featured on London Live! Broadcast. He was also nominated for the ‘Rising Star” Award at the yearly British LGBT Awards and also appeared as the cover star “One to Watch” on the September issue of Gaytimes Magazine.
This year he walked the London Queer Fashion Week, Face of Worldwide Fashion Brand Misguided ‘Keep Being You’ campaign and closed Sydney Gay Lesbian Mardi Gras 2018 where he sang his original track ‘We In Luv.”
With his release of his debut EP last year SMM is back with his new EP ‘4 Track Bitch’ a collection of sexy tracks in collaboration with Manchester’s 1990 Club - his signature fierce vocals melt into this soul electronic realm with his anthemic first single ‘San Miguel’, break up ballad ‘Burn Boy’, euphoric club hit ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, and purposeful pop song ‘Hey!”
Seann’s fearless sense of self, style, and self-expression, vicious vocals has truly inspired and won the hearts of many around the world. “Feel free and fabulou, because I’m in town…and of course in 6 inch platforms!”
DJ Regina
Manny Dibiachi
Manny Dibiachi lives outside the box. Rhyming over fluid beats and creating his own through his vicious wordplay. Fighting social stigmas, he uses his music to speak through the human experience. Dibiachi is a Pittsburgh born and raised artist. His talents are songwriting, rapping, singing, and composing. He is a self-taught engineer, and most of his works use his own recording techniques.
Qween Jean, The Revelator
Qween Jean is a NYC-based costume designer who has designed over 50 shows and counting. She is the founder of Black Trans Liberation and has fully committed her voice for the advocacy of marginalized communities, with an emphasis on Black Trans people. Through this work she is passionate about creating not only space, but access for unsung heroes and folks who are often overlooked, shunned and abandoned. She feels their stories are valuable and deserve recognition.
Through storytelling Qween is able to adorn bodies, facilitate dialogue and etch histories untold and not fully realized. A South Florida native, Qween began her theatre career at Florida School of the Arts. Here is where she stepped into her calling and followed it all the way to North Carolina, where she continued her education and obtained a bachelor's degree in Business Communications at the University of North Carolina. Then after furthering her training at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, receiving a MFA in Design. She is currently among few costuming professionals in the NYC theatre who live their trans identities out loud- while making an effort to ensure she is not the last.
Qween founded the Black Trans Liberation in 2020. An organization aimed to provide access and employment resources for the TGNC community. Through this work she has organized community events, protests and mutual aid all in an effort to denounce the actions of a disenfranchised system- and calling for an end to racism and white supremacy. She is a firm believer in the preservation and support of Black Trans people and a walking testimony of how one can thrive when adequately paid, supported and loved. “Hire the girls,” is her motto and it echoes through time and space.
In 2021 Qween was MOMA PS1’s artist in residency and co-curated Memoriam and Deliverance, an installation that called awareness to the last five years of transphobic fatal violence while celebrating Black Trans leaders in the community. She was also the opening speaker for the March on Washington March on for Voting Rights.
Corrine Jasmin
Brooklyn-based Corrine Jasmin, on top of musicianship, is a multi-disciplinary artist working intimately with photography, video, and installation. While previously attending school for film and screenwriting she immersed herself in Pittsburgh’s arts community, exhibiting work in various galleries and giving electric spoken word performances around the city, the midwest, and ultimately the country. As the buzz spread she became known not only for her unique lens-based work, but also as a commanding, alluring performer and thoughtful writer.
“Move Through,” Jasmin’s debut single, was accompanied by a music film also directed by her and followed up by self- recorded “Fever Dream Insomniac.” The 30-minute album is influenced by jazz, electronic music, pop and rap, to alternative R&B styles and experimental rock.
2022 People’s Pride Sponsors
PLATINUM
As a provider-led health plan, we’ve created a unique laboratory to align incentives, deliver better care, and improve the health of our members.
Silver
At the Center for Inclusion Health, our programs aim to remove barriers that sometimes prevent some people from seeking the care they need.
Metro offers every patient high quality, compassionate health care. Our theoretical framework for treating patients is twofold, encompassing both comprehensive whole-person care, and patient-centered care.
Our Positive Health Clinic (PHC) uses a team approach to meet the medical, emotional, and practical needs of people living with HIV. We also provide advanced HIV testing and long-term primary care based on your needs.
We are the clericals, organizers, communicators, educators, and safety experts who service members of the historic United Steelworkers union.
Emerson’s LGBTQ + Allies employee resource group chapters across the globe are demonstrating Emerson’s commitment to creating an inclusive environment.
Bronze
The mission of WGF is to achieve equality for women and girls, now and for generations to come. In pursuit of this mission, WGF breaks down barriers so that every girl can rise and every woman can soar.
Pittsburgh United is a coalition of community, labor, faith, and environmental organizations committed to advancing the vision of a community and economy that work for all people.
Local 1776 Keystone State of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union exists to enroll, as members, all persons engaged in work within its assigned jurisdiction, to negotiate Collective Bargaining Agreements for them and to enforce said agreements by resolving grievances and maintaining all other contractual rights.
The Pittsburgh Freethought Community is a welcoming and caring community for those who share an evidence-based perspective and wish to promote science, reason, and humanist values in the greater Pittsburgh area.
The mission of the LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group at the University of Pittsburgh is to promote the professional and social development of LGBTQIA+ staff and faculty and advocate for the needs of our community by hosting, or participating in various social events, educating the greater University of Pittsburgh community, fostering a climate of outreach and inclusion, and acting as an agent for the collective voices of the university's LGBTQIA+ professional community.
Sunday Assembly Pittsburgh is a secular congregation that celebrates life! Our goal is to build community throughout the Pittsburgh area to improve lives.
FISA Foundation champions equity, justice, safety and inclusion for women, girls, and people with disabilities, combatting systemic racism that impedes progress for these populations in southwestern Pennsylvania.
OEDI was created to help build the University into a world class model of equity, diversity, and inclusion defined by inclusive academic excellence and an environment that allows everyone to succeed. OEDI provides vision, leadership, and counsel on matters of equity, diversity and inclusion, and partners with units and campuses to create welcoming and respectful environments that enable everyone to perform to their full potential.
