DrinkGay barAllentown and the Delaware District

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For better and for worse, walking into this longstanding pillar of the Allentown gay-bar district is like walking into a John Waters movie — a seedy place with a dated, dive-ier than dive-y ambience that's populated by a delightfully trashy rogue's gallery of neighborhood misfits whose abrasive attitudes will either charm you or put you off, depending on your personality.

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Address: 26 Allen St
Getting there: Metro Bus 7 or 29; Metro Rail: Allen-Medical Campus
Phone: +17168843615

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