![]() Pittsburgh has made significant gains in the past several years. ![]() So actually, one is better off being gay to enjoy downtown nightlife. There are a lot of bars that cater to homosexuals along Liberty Avenue. Our Downtown does not have a lot of bars that stay open late that cater to heterosexuals. I personally am straight, but work in hospitality Downtown. Pittsburgh is not San Francisco or New Orleans, but has a pretty strong gay culture that has grown out of reidentifying itself from an industrial giant to an educational, cultural, and medical center. Open gayness probably would not fly in some of the river towns in the Allegheny and the Mon Valleys, at least not among men. ![]() Oh sure, there will always be token homophobics in every neighborhood in every city. It surely was not like that twenty-five years ago when South Side was blue-collar. In the East End neighborhoods where people are more educated, like Oakland, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, it would not be a big deal. To what extreme does "no" mean, th ough? Other than the few city neighborhoods you have in mind, would a gay couple holding hands in public get looks and whispers or would it be to the extent of being physically harmed?
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