Tag: historic preservation

History

Designating Pitt Men’s Study as a Historic Location Would Put the Narrative in the Hands of the Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Community

March 26, 2025 by

First, do no harm. I don’t think Donny’s Place, a former gay bar in the Polish Hill neighborhood, should be designated as a historic designation. And it certainly shouldn’t be the first place so designated. Back in 2021, I was contacted by Preservation Pittsburgh to support their efforts to designate the site of the former […]

Culture

Clybourne Park – It Is Just One House

May 1, 2013 by

Five days later, I’m still wrestling with my response to Clybourne Park – a production of Pittsburgh Public Theater. Clybourne Park has earned a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize so it seems fair to take some time to think it through.   In Act One, the problem centers on a black family moving into Chicago’s white […]