Named PERSAD, this organization gave the LGBTQ community quality care. In 1972 - a year before homosexuality was declassified as a mental disorder - Pittsburgh opened the country’s second-oldest licensed LGBTQ mental health center. When it comes to LGBTQ health services in the US, Pittsburgh has been a trailblazer, offering non-discriminatory care before homosexuality was decriminalized in Pennsylvania, let alone nationwide.
