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The basement of the buildg on the rner of Liberty Avenue and Strawberry Way was once the Pegas Lounge, one of the most popular gay clubs the cy of Ptsburgh. Opened June of 1980, the Pegas Lounge was a fixture of gay life the downtown neighborhood until s move to the North Si neighborhood 2009. Owned and operated by David Morrow until 2005 and then Stt Noxon afterward, the Pegas Lounge hosted leadg drag queen performers like Chi Chi LaRue, Tiffany Jon, and Dive as well as Hollywood notabl like Kathleen Turner. The Pegas Lounge is most notable, however, for s many servic to the gay muny over the years, particularly s activism fightg AIDS and providg a safe space for young gay men. Pegas Lounge closed for good 2012 and s former home on Liberty Avenue is currently vant. * at avenue gay *
The basement of the buildg on the rner of Liberty Avenue and Strawberry Way was once the Pegas Lounge, one of the most popular gay clubs the cy of Ptsburgh.
Opened June of 1980, the Pegas Lounge was a fixture of gay life the downtown neighborhood until s move to the North Si neighborhood 2009. The Pegas Lounge is most notable, however, for s many servic to the gay muny over the years, particularly s activism fightg AIDS and providg a safe space for young gay men. The club soon beme a centerpiece of Ptsburgh’s gay muny.
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When opened the Pegas was among the most smopolan s for gay patrons the Ptsburgh area, hostg a piano and cktail lounge on the upper level and a dance floor down below. Actrs Kathleen Turner also equented the club durg her time headlg a play Ptsburgh tled Pegas is also notable for s socially nsc role wh the gay muny of Ptsburgh. Owner David Morrow felt particularly rponsible for providg a safe space for young gay men, nstctg a fence down the middle of the club separatg an unr 21 area servg juice and soda om an over 21 area servg alhol.
Charl Raldo out of the Universy of Ptsburgh, LGBT+ mental health anizatn Persad, and the Gay and Lbian Communy Center, the Pegas and other gay clubs the Ptsburgh area worked to rec s ctomers as volunteers for a study search of a cure for AIDS. Bee of s role as a haven for young gay men and as an early rponr to the AIDS crisis, the former se of the Pegas reprents a unique landmark wh the history of Ptsburgh’s gay muny. Generatns of gay men found themselv and their place wh the muny over the thirty pl years of s existence.
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The club opened an era when gay men routely lost their liv and livelihoods for publicly exprsg their sexualy.