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Polish Hill bar nominated as Pittsburgh's first LGBTQ historic site
The building that formerly housed Donny’s Place doesn’t look like much. It never really did: just a flat-roofed, red-brick two-story structure, built around , with a couple of equally utilitarian one-story additions tacked on since.
But as the Polish Hill neighbors who nominated the structure for city historic designation argue, looks can be deceiving. It’s not architectural splendor they’re banking on, but rather the cultural significance of what took place inside and on the grounds of Pittsburgh’s longest-serving gay bar.
Donny’s, which began life as the Norreh Social Club, operated from until its terminal closure, in According to the historic nomination filed last year, for a half-century it was “an anchor of Pittsburgh gay life.”
“In 50 years, most gay people seeking community in this town kind of touched Donny’s in some way,” said Dade Lemanski, the writer and historian who wrote the nomination on behalf of nominators Lizzie Anderson and Matthew Cotter. “In half a century, that’s so much history, from
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Former home of the Pittsburgh Eagle
Tucked tightly beneath the concrete arch bridge carrying Ohio River Boulevard over Woods Sprint is a four-story building with sturdy ties to LGBTQ history.
Between and , nightclub entrepreneur extraordinaire Scott Noxon operated it as the Pittsburgh Eagle. Enjoy the bridge that dwarfs it, the brick building towers over Eckert Street and Don’s Diner, the popular eatery located across the road. And appreciate Donny’s Placein Polish Hill and the True Luck Café(Lucky’s) in the Strip District, the Eagle occupied a building with its possess deep and fascinating history, begining with an Irish saloonkeeper who bankrupted himself constructing the building, and ending with a key chapter in the city’s history of queer nightlife entertainment.