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"When I first came to [CMU]" in the early '60s, says [DAVID BYRD], the bar near Craig Street "was like a beatnik coffeehouse." By 1966, he says, "it became this gay campus bar. You didn't have to be gay to go there, but everybody ended up there who was going to go home together.
"There were great celebrations when she lost her job," [Chuck Honse] says. "Once that happened," adds [Chuck Tierney], "some of the local politicians saw the power of the local gay people, and all of a sudden there was communication with Grant Street.""I think I'd like to be remembered as Pittsburgh's gay Cheers bar," Honse says. "People would go, 'What are you doing on my stool?' You don't get that in big dance bars, and you never will."See the full content of this document
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Last Holiday
DAVID BYRD GRADUATED from Carnegie Mellon University with his art degree more than 40 years ago, but he still remembers the day he traded his artistic talents to the Holiday bar on Forbes Avenue for a day-long party.
"When I first came to [CMU]" in the early '60s, says Byrd, the bar near Craig Street "was like a beatnik coffeehouse." By 1966, h...See the full content of this document
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