The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a leader in the health care sector as the home to large medical providers such as University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Īfter 1990, Pittsburgh transformed into a hub for the health care, education, and technology industries. However, this rich industrial history left the area with renowned museums, medical centers, parks, research centers, and a diverse cultural district. Deindustrialization in the 1970s and 1980s laid off area blue-collar workers as steel and other heavy industries declined, and thousands of downtown white-collar workers also lost jobs when several Pittsburgh-based companies moved out. For part of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York City and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment it had the most U.S. Additionally, it is a leader in computing, electronics, and the automotive industry.
Īside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in the manufacturing of other important materials-aluminum and glass-and in the petroleum industry. The city developed as a vital link of the Atlantic coast and Midwest, as the mineral-rich Allegheny Mountains led to the region being contested by the French and British empires, Virginians, Whiskey Rebels, and Civil War raiders. The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclined railways, a pre-revolutionary fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. Pittsburgh is known both as "the Steel City" for its more than 300 steel-related businesses and as the "City of Bridges" for its 446 bridges. Pittsburgh is located in the southwest of the state, at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River, forming the Ohio River. The Pittsburgh metropolitan area is the anchor of Western Pennsylvania its population of 2.37 million is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 27th-largest in the U.S. and the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania, behind Philadelphia. A population of 302,971 residents lives within the city limits as of the 2020 US Census, making it the 68th-largest city in the U.S. 4 when a gay rights activist was bludgeoned to death.Pittsburgh ( / ˈ p ɪ t s b ɜːr ɡ/ PITS-burg) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States and the county seat of Allegheny County. Under the penal code, any person who has "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" - gay sex - is liable to life imprisonment.Ĭampaigners have reported a spate of attacks this year, including four murders. Uganda is one of the most difficult countries in Africa to be a sexual minority. What you heard in court are the charges (of common nuisance) that the state attorney proffered." Yesterday, we were holding them under the Tobacco Control Act. "We have done these raids in many shisha smoking places. "We are not targeting them and we will not," said police spokesman Patrick Onyango, adding that it is state prosecutors who decide what crimes to prosecute suspects with. The Uganda police denied the raid targeted LGBT+ people and said they were enforcing the Tobacco Control Act, which outlaws smoking with a shisha water pipe. LGBT+ rights campaigners in Uganda have expressed concerns about a spate of attacks after a minister proposed introducing the death penalty for gay sex last month, a threat retracted by the government after international donors condemned the move. They just want to silence us as a community." Then you arrest almost 130 and charge them with being a public nuisance. They were having fun, listening to music. "These were people in a club, not even on the streets.