For the month of June 2014, the Future Tenant Gallery at 819 Penn Avenue, was transformed into a darkened members-only nightclub, illuminated by the turn of slide projectors featuring 640 original images from gay night clubs owned by Robert “Lucky” Johns: “The Pope of Gay Pittsburgh.” 1970s House of Tilden Slides from the Robert “Lucky” Johns Collection of the PQHP Archives. The PQHP archives hold over 12,000 items ranging from photographs to clothing, video, and realia.
Lucky After Dark, the Pittsburgh Queer History Project’s inaugural exhibit, featured a cross-section of ephemera from our growing archives.
