Despite the widely hailed importance of gay bars, what we know of them comes largely from the gayborhoods of four “great cities.” This paper explores the similarities of 55 lone small–city gay bars to each other and the challenges they pose to the sexualities and urban literatures. Small–city gay bars have long been integrated with straight people in their often red–state communities; they are undifferentiated and unspecialized subcultural amenities not just for LGBT people, but for straights as well, fostering cosmopolitan lifestyles for large geographical regions whose residents nevertheless prefer small–city living for reasons, including proximity to kin or nature, and the fact that many big–city pleasures can be found everywhere. Contrasts between these findings and previous scholarship reveal the ways in which the latter has often implicitly defined urbanism and cosmopolitanism in terms of commercial diversity, as do studies of gentrification or gayborhoods. Small cities provide a way to integrate studies along the urban–rural interface, including places left to rural studies by both sexualities and urban scholarship. As an analytic object of comparison, small cities can help to disentangle urban effects from the cosmopolitanism of modern life generally.

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小城市同性恋酒吧，大城市都市主义

尽管同性恋酒吧的重要性广受赞誉，但我们对它们的了解主要来自四个“大城市”的同性恋社区。本文探讨了 55 家孤独的小城市同性恋酒吧之间的相似之处，以及它们对性和城市文学构成的挑战。小城市同性恋酒吧长期以来一直与红州社区中的异性恋者融合在一起。它们是无差别和非专业化的亚文化设施，不仅适用于 LGBT 人群，也适用于异性恋，为大地理区域培养国际化生活方式，这些地区的居民仍然喜欢小城市生活，原因包括亲近亲属或自然，以及许多大——城市乐趣随处可见。这些发现与以前的学术研究之间的对比揭示了后者经常从商业多样性方面隐含地定义城市主义和世界主义的方式，正如对中产阶级化或同性恋的研究一样。小城市提供了一种沿城乡界面整合研究的方法，包括性取向和城市学术留给农村研究的地方。作为比较的分析对象，小城市有助于将城市效应与现代生活的世界主义大体分开。