![]() ![]() You didn't have to be gay to go there, but everybody ended up there who was going to go home together. "When I first came to " in the early '60s, says Byrd, the bar near Craig Street "was like a beatnik coffeehouse." By 1966, he says, "it became this gay campus bar. The establishment will be shuttered April 29 David Byrd graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with his art degree more than 40 years ago, but he still remembers the day he traded his artistic talents to the Holiday bar on Forbes Avenue for a day-long party. ![]() Chuck Tierney, left, and Chuck Honse have owned the city's oldest gay bar, The Holiday, since 1977.
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