"This is not a story of New York, where people come there from their hometown and use sexual identity to meet people in a new city...This is a place where your sexuality is operating amongst family relationships, ethnic relationships and neighborhood relationships. All of these things are very closely intertwined, and if you're going to do anything in this city, it's going to involve your family at some point. What we're trying to do is to take a history that's not just a gay history, but it's a Pittsburgh history. It's a Pittsburgh history of gayness; you just can't separate the two."
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