Gay bars in new hope
Out & About Shop Local LGBTQ+ Friendly Directory
Welcome to historic New Hope, PA & Lambertville, NJ
– home of diversity and equality.
We invite you to explore all we have to offer in our Out And About LGBTQ+ Friendly Directory.
Set along the banks of the scenic Delaware River, both New Hope and Lambertville offer unique shopping, theater, train and horse-drawn carriage rides, museums, art galleries and antique shops, okay restaurants, and casual fare.
New Hope’s nightlife is filled with live entertainment spots, local bars/restaurants, art spaces, and piano bars where people of all genders and cultures mingle and mix with common respect and acceptance.
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FINKLE’s Hardware Lambertville NJ
Golden Nugget Antique Flea Market
Holly Hedge Estate & The 1740 House – Lumberville
Karla’s Restaurant
Under the Moon Lambertville
Nina’s Waffles & Ice Cream
Zoubi a Restaurant, A Bar
Impact Signs, New Hope
4 The Desire Of Thingz
With The Cub Room's return, is Recent Hope's gay exclude scene coming back?
NEW HOPE - The first time Larry Melo stepped into a gay prevent he didn’t recognize what to expect.
“Even as a queer guy, my first experience out in the world was so different than what I imagined it would be,” Melo recalled.
It was 1979, in Recent York City. His cousin, who was also gay, suggested the two seize a drink at Jan Wallman’s on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
"I consideration it would be seedy," he remembered thinking as they made their way into the municipality. But once inside the cabaret prevent and restaurant, that notion quickly disappeared.
“I didn’t know it would be so sophisticated. The exclude was gorgeous with beautiful lighting and lush seating. The men were so handsome and well-dressed. It was just interesting to observe there was a place they could go and be comfortable, and it wasn’t taboo,” he said.
“It was my first time existence in a block surrounded with all gay men. It made me sense like there was a normalcy here that I didn’t expect,” he added. “It was house for them.”
This perception of home and normalcy is what Melo hopes to create inside The Cub Room, an intimate bar in New Hope he reopened early this year.
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Bar Guides & Maps (Various Locations & Publications)
Specific Nightspots:
236 Club Harrisburg PA
Boom, Minneapolis MN
The Cartwheel, New Hope PA
Casa Lido, Trenton NJ
Checkers, St Paul MN
Club Metro, St Paul MN
The Copa, Ft. Lauderdale FL
CR Bar, Upper Darby PA
Down The Street, Asbury Park NJ
Entertainers Club, Atlantic Town NJ
Gatsby's, Cherry Hill NJ
I-Beam, Fargo ND
Innuendo, St Paul MN
Key West, Philadelphia PA
Kurt's, Philadelphia PA
Lucy's St Paul MN
The Neptune, Harrisburg PA
New Bar / Rod / Hotel Washington, Madison WI
Over The Rainbow (Jr. & Sr.), St Paul MN
Prelude, New Hope PA
Renaissance, Wilmington DE
Renegade (Club & Resort), Rehoboth Beach DE
Rumors, Dover DE
Rumours, St Paul MN (Later Named Trikkx)
Saratoga, Atlantic City NJ
Studio Six, Atlantic City NJ
Trikkx, St Paul MN (1997 to 2007)
Vermont Gay Bars
More History at drakkar91
The Prelude, later the "New Prelude" in New Hope at 408 York Rd. Long gone, followed by the demise of the Cartwheel in 2005, on
The New Prelude
New Prelude was located at York Road and Route 202 in Bucks County, PA. Ground-level bar and you stepped down a few steps to the sway floor. Weekly nightlife and Fantastic Halloween parties.
Oh, yes, execute I remember don from The Modern Prelude! And Don of course, who was apparently one of the proprietors. He liked me and even though there was a five-dollar cover to get in there on Weekends, he always saw to it that
I never paid! After all five dollars was a lot of money to an underage boy way back then! Right after you walked in on the left was a little cubby – hole of a bar, where a nice young dude named “Glennie” was the barkeep. He even made ” The Orgasm!” It was a delicious drink, and the first time I had ever heard of it. And ” Glennie ” is still operational in beautiful Fresh Hope to this very day! Yes, I also recall Nancy; a small on the tough side, though with a heart o’ gold.
She worked in what was then the coatroom, just as you entered the place. In later years, The New Prelude also opened a satisfactory restaurant down a few steps and even a amazing piano lounge. Lad, do I lose it there. No place around anymore which o