Gay mens club of new hope
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Bar Guides & Maps (Various Locations & Publications)
Specific Nightspots:
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 Municipality 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 ( to )
Vermont Gay Bars
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A extended running venue, and a favorite space I visited often in the l
Pool Boys: The Summer Gay Scene at the Raven Pool in New Hope
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“The Pool” in full swing.
“Are you drawing my PIC-TCHA?”
From my lounge chair, I look up to see an older, slightly stocky gentleman hovering over me. He’s wearing blue shorty-shorts, and spitting his words with a particularly nasal Long Island drawl. He’s also staring at me. Attentively. Waking up to the obvious, I realize his gaze is fixated on my notepad.
“No,” I start, “I’m actually here to write about — ”
He’s not listening. Instead, he starts to pose. He positions his hand to the back of his head like a Roman god, gives me his adj Marilyn-Monroe-seducing-the-camera eyes, then breaks at the knee like a schoolgirl about to curtsy. His gaze quickly moves on to the next focus of his (eas
With The Cub Room's return, is New Hope's gay bar scene coming back?
NEW HOPE - The first time Larry Melo stepped into a gay bar he didn’t know what to expect.
“Even as a gay guy, my first experience out in the world was so different than what I imagined it would be,” Melo recalled.
It was , in New York City. His cousin, who was also gay, suggested the two grab a drink at Jan Wallman’s on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
"I thought it would be seedy," he remembered thinking as they made their way into the city. But once inside the cabaret bar and restaurant, that notion quickly disappeared.
“I didn’t grasp it would be so urbane. The bar was gorgeous with beautiful lighting and lush seating. The men were so handsome and well-dressed. It was just interesting to see there was a place they could depart and be comfortable, and it wasn’t taboo,” he said.
“It was my first time being in a bar surrounded with all gay men. It made me feel like there was a normalcy here that I didn’t expect,” he added. “It was home for them.”
This sense of home and normalcy is what Melo ho
Shifts in attitude kill off suburban gay bars
BEN FINLEY The Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug 2,
PHILADELPHIA (AP) &#; David Ralston came out in the early s the only way he knew how: He went to a gay bar.
Not just any gay bar, but one in the suburbs, far from his Northeast Philadelphia home and the eyes of anyone in his large Irish Catholic family.
&#;I would still experience funny going into gay bars in Philadelphia,&#; Ralston, now 46, recalled. &#;I would wonder who&#;s watching me going in and out? Who&#;s going to say my mother?&#;
So, he drove to Gatsby&#;s in Cherry Hill, just one of a wide variety of gay bars tucked discreetly in the suburbs at the time. There was the Lark in Bridgeport, for instance, and the CR Bar was in Upper Darby. New Hope had three.
No more. Suburban gay bars have all but disappeared. Modern Hope supports only one gay bar now, the Raven.
The decline reflects major shifts in American attitudes &#; among both gay and straight people &#; and the emergence of online sites for dating and hooking up.
It also illuminates the obsolete business model of the tradit