26/01/2024
As the owner of Donny’s Place, Thinnes was a member of the Pittsburgh Tavern Guild, a collective of LGBTQ bar owners in Pittsburgh that was the precursor to many of the LGBTQ Community organizations that would come in the 1980s and 90s.
On the morning of Saturday, January 20, 2024, Donald “Donny” Thinnes passed away after battling a myriad of health issues, according to long-time friends. Donny Thinnes had been involve…