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TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh, an agency serving victims and survivors of domestic and dating violence, was disturbed by the article “Police: Men meet on Grindr, beat each other up in New Kensington” (Jan. 13, TribLIVE). It included misguided information, victim-blaming, homophobia and an offensive clickbait headline. To call such a horrific and traumatic incident a “fistfight” minimizes a dangerous assault. The level of detail about the attack is lurid and unnecessary. You name the two people involved, which is public information but discouraged for safety reasons. And by focusing the headline and first paragraph on the fact the men met on Grindr, the article implies that hookup apps, not people who use violence, are to blame for violent acts like this. ....
Abington teenager donates backpacks to help young people experiencing homelessness TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer Alexa Rhodes (left), 16, unloads boxes of backpacks with the help of her mother, Sharon, and sister Addison, 13, at Covenant House s Rights of Passage apartments in Kensington Jan. 25, 2021. This was her second delivery of 75 backpacks filled with more than 40 items in each for the young residents. Alexa Rhodes, a 16 year-old junior at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, has been volunteering to help others since she was six, joining her parents and siblings serving at community dinners and preparing food packages for the homeless and food insecure. Saddened by the number of people experiencing homelessness, last year Alexa created her own organization called H.E.L.P.I.N.G. The Homeless Backpacks to raise funds and gather needed items to be placed in sturdy, multi-use backpacks. ....