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That was news to Harrison Apple, a Carnegie Mellon University historian who founded the Pittsburgh Queer History Project and who has been documenting queer social spaces for more than a decade. Apple has compiled so much information that they used it in a University of Arizona Ph. Bars catering to gay and lesbian Pittsburghers began appearing in the city in the s.

Apple, along with such research partners as the Black Unicorn Library and Archives Project, led by Bekezela Mguni, has mapped out much of that history by collecting stories and artifacts now archived in the Pittsburgh Queer History Project. InApple mounted a highly acclaimed strip, Lucky After Darkwhich displayed artifacts, photos and videos from their research.

It was a time when gay bar owners used collective action to create a wide social and business safety net for themselves and their patrons. They were always already part of a rich social landscape. The Tavern Guild helped to facilitate those collaborations. Pittsburgh Tavern Guild ad bar in the November 9, edition of the Washington Blade newspaper.

Copy via the Internet Archive. Though none of the Tavern Guild clubs sponsoring the ads has survived, 40 years gay, the buildings where some of them were located still remain. It was demolished in the s and replaced by a Giant Eagle. Last district, redevelopment of that site began and a new mixed-use development is being built there.

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Other Lucky Johns bars included the Transportation Club, which occupied several buildings in the s bar s. One, located on Morewood Street in Bloomfield, is now home to an adult entertainment venue. Leslie Snider rented the bar for at least two years before buying the property inaccording to land records and newspaper archives.

She sold it a decade later, and like many of its Fifth Avenue neighbors, it was demolished and is now used as a strip lot. It seemed before its time, a hidden little gem so to speak where the ladies hung out. NEXT dug into the stories behind some of the buildings that have survived. Photo by David S.

Founded by Lucky Johns inthe Travelers Social Club occupied several temporary spots before That year it bought a former Larimer slaughterhouse that since had been the clubhouse for an Italian social club, the Spigno-Saturnia Italo-American Society. Travelers occupies a distinctive niche gay the history of Pittsburgh district bars.

The board cited several years of complaints against Travelers, including charges of serving nonmembers and providing false information to the PLCB. The building remains in use as Lit Cigar Lounge. Photos by David S. Its first owner died in and his family sold the property, long used as a jewelry store, in Init became the Norreh Social Club.