Southern Tier Brewing in Pittsburgh has seemingly decided to cancel an upcoming Drag Show Brunch in an effort to cater to a different crowd. According to posts on the internet, the decision to cancel the (sold out) brunch came just 5 days prior to the day of the event.
The news originally comes from a post on Reddit where a user shared a screenshot of what appears to be a Facebook post explaining the situation from behind the scenes. A link to the Facebook post can be found here. As the screenshot goes on to say, a representative from the brewery made the decision to cancel the brunch in an effort to cater to the baseball crowd “letting out”.
You can see the post below.
Southern Tier cancels ticketed drag show only 5 days in advance; “It’s simply a business decision.”
byu/periphescent inpittsburgh
The screenshot mentioned in the post above can be seen below:
As of this writing, the event is still publicly listed on the Southern Tier Facebook page, however, the location has been changed to Voodoo Brewing as noted in the post above.
Update: Since originally writing this, Southern Tier has responded to a few comments on the internet with the following response (although no official announcement has been posted):
“[W]e understand the impact that canceling an event like Drag Brunch has on our community, especially during Pride Month. We sincerely value all our consumers and communities and did not mean to imply that one group or event is more important or more welcome in our taprooms than another. Southern Tier would not be the company that it is without mutual support from our local communities.
We regret the unclear communication surrounding the cancellation of this event: we have a standing open-door policy on game and event days where we do not host any ticketed events so that we can welcome as many guests as possible. We made an error in scheduling a ticketed event during one of our open-door days, but want to reassure you that the show was compensated to not lose any revenue due to our scheduling mistake and we hope to reschedule. We also want to reassure our community that this cancellation had nothing to do with this specific event and what it stands for, and this was simply due to our standing event policy.
We promise to work hard to make sure scheduling errors like this do not happen again. We ask for your understanding that this mistake does not reflect any Southern Tier beliefs and we look forward to welcoming everyone into our taprooms.”
