"New Albany gay bar has sense of Pride," even as one-way streets remain shameful.

Love him or hate him, Matt McMahan doesn't undertake projects unless they make dollars and cents, and this is the single best reason to congratulate him for his decision to keep The Warehouse open as an LGBT-friendly bar, albeit with a new identity.

It's capitalism and unexploited market segments, and it's an salutary exercise in ideology -- and some sweet day, none of these considerations will matter, and it simply will be what it is, with no further need for qualifications.

Just think about it: New Albany will support an LGBT bar, but the city can't seem to achieve two-way street conversions, and in terms of the street grid itself, we're actually regressing.

I think it's obvious who is displaying courage in New Albany, and who is not.

Only New Albany gay bar has sense of ‘Pride’, by Baylee Pulliam (Courier-Journal)

Matt McMahan has owned a few restaurants and bars, but his latest New Albany venture is a real source of ‘pride.’

The newly-rennovated Pride Bar + Lounge, 504 State Street, is the only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-friendly bar he knows of in Southern Indiana. When it opens Friday, McMahan says, it will fill a gap left when the bar’s previous owner closed early last month.