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Monday11 AM–3 AM
Tuesday11 AM–3 AM
Wednesday11 AM–3 AM
Thursday11 AM–3 AM
Friday11 AM–3 AM
Saturday11 AM–3 AM
Sunday11 AM–3 AM

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Paying homage to the day the Marriage Equality Proceed was passed in the Joined States, June 26, 2015, the name Six26 was born.  On this day, the United States Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage, legalizing it in all 50 states, and requiring states to honor out-of-state same-sex marriage licenses in the case Obergefell v. Hodges. With a lounge that becomes a joyful and vibrant high-energy lounge and a chill garden-esque rooftop bar as the sun sets, The Six26 venue is always ready to observe life and love with all who walk through its doors.

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Hours of Operation

Monday - Fri
4 pm - 2 am

Saturday
11:30 am - 2 am

Sunday
11:30 am - 2 am



Murphy's Tavern

For decades, Murphy's Tavern was a popular gay lock in Newark, NJ. It was supposedly the only male lover bar in Newark in the 1969s and 1970s. The Tavern is no longer present today, but it is an important and rich part to Newark's queer history. The bar also worked with other gay bars in New Brunswick and Asbury Park, Fresh Jersey to question antigay regulations on bars and taverns. In 1967, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that so long as they were well-behaved, there could not be restrictions on homosexuals patronizing taverns. The Tavern was eventually demolished in the early 2000s.

A former patron of Murphy's described it as, "It was small. It was just a exclude, you walk in the door and then there was this U­shape prevent, old wood and there was paneling just 1970s. And that’s really what it was. You had the two sexy bartenders behind, male of course with no shirts on and you know. So it was just that type of environment,” (June Dowell-Burton 24).

Although, not all members of the gay community were welcome. Angela Raine remembers Murphy's as creature unwelcome for transsexual individuals, "He just wasn't crazy about trans women entity there. The only way that you act

Pride month: When gay bars were illegal in Brand-new Jersey

This article was first published in 2019.


How can you tell if someone is homosexual?

For a Dominant Court judge sitting in Ocean County in 1957, it was easy.

“It is in the plumage that you recognize the bird,” he explained in a case against Paddock Exclude in Atlantic City.

For years in the Garden Mention, the quacks like a duck, walks like a duck test was the standard by which police, inspectors and judges punished bars frequented by people who might have stood under the LGBTQ umbrella.

While sodomy was against the law in much of the country — and often used to prosecute gay people — it was not against the law to be homosexual or lesbian in Recent Jersey. But it was forbidden, however, for bars and restaurants with liquor licenses to allow gays, lesbians, cross-dressers and the like to "congregate" — a rule that did not apply to other establishments like theaters and cafes.

The state’s liquor regulators called gay bars a public “nuisance” and “inimicable to public morals,” and they occasionally suspended violators and shut down do again offenders.

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