“It was home for them.” This sense 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. Located at the New Hope ...

Larry Melo, the new owner of The Cub Room, reopened the longstanding New Hope gay bar, which had closed nearly three years ago. "I still think we need a place to call our own," Melo said.