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GreatGazoo

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7. Police say it was because the bar was 100% over their fire code limit of 70 patrons

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri May 9, 2025, 09:22 AM

May 9

133 patrons + performers + staff.

>"Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey...said “I want to first acknowledge the ways in which bar raids were used historically to harass and commit violence against members of the LGBTQIA+ community,” he said in the statement. “[...] It is my intent that our actions as a city build upon, rather than undermine, that legitimate desire for safety.”

[The owners of the bar, P Town, said] “to my knowledge, no patrons were mistreated,”<

https://www.them.us/story/ptown-pittsburgh-lgbtq-bar-police-raid-amanda-lepore

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] applegrove May 8 OP

Why are right wingers and the religious right so dead set against gays, trans, and others? --- Misdirection. Norrrm May 8 #1

This is all a mutated form of Nixon's Southern Strategy. Initech May 8 #2

Intimidating Alice Kramden May 8 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove May 8 #4

I that Gay bar raids stopped in the 80s. Demovictory9 May 9 #5

FFS, go catch some Real criminals! 😑👎 electric_blue68 May 9 #6

Police say it was because the bar was 100% over their fire code limit of 70 patrons GreatGazoo May 9 #7