The Holiday Pride:
A Pittsburgh LGBT+ Community Museum

By Al Preston Sometimes when I’m driving around the city, I like finding new routes and don’t mind it too much if I make a wrong turn. Pittsburgh’s roads are convoluted and twisting but they are also pretty forgiving when someone makes a mistake. I do love finding new weird roads and paths when I drive. Shortly after we moved to the city, I was driving my wife to work, and I realized that one of the houses we were stopped next to had a massive concrete

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'Gayborhoods' are a common sight in many cities. Not in Pittsburgh, however. Philadelphia, on the other hand, has it's own well known gayborhood. What makes a gayborhood and what makes a spread out community?

A little look into the work we put into creating the gay bar walking tour and what's to come!

Talking about how Tom Wilson came to be interviewed by Al. His Oral History began to shape the Quiet Pittsburgh Oral History project.

October was busy for the Holiday Pride! Here's a summary of what we did.

Exciting news! The Holiday Pride has Zines coming soon!

A short recap of how our Pride month went! It was wonderful to meet folks!

A look into the process of the creation of a physical exhibit.

A quick look at the conversation occuring about Donny's Place, a little late to the game.

A recap of the Holiday Pride's poster presentation at Duquesne University's Research Symposium.

A short discussion on Thomas Rainbolt's thesis about the LGBT+ Networks in Pittsburgh.

Silas talks about work he's done previously about Pittsburgh's queer community.

What is public memory and what does it matter? This is just a brief discussion on the road blocks to studying history.

A little peek behind the curtain on how we came to interview Scott Noxon.

This is a short case study on AI and it's uses as a tool for education.

By Al Preston Pittsburgh has a diverse and complicated history. That was a fact I was not fully aware of when I arrived for the first...