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Small-City Gay Bars, Big-City Urbanism* Greggor Mattson Associate Professor of Sociology Oberlin College Accepted, City & Collective. Keywords: small cities, urbanism, LGBT placemaking Despite the widely hailed importance of gay bars, what we know about them in the U.S. comes from outliers: gay neighborhoods in four big cities. This essay explores the similarities of 52 small-city same-sex attracted bars to each other, and their differences from big-city gayborhood bars. Small-city gay bars are surprisingly integrated with straight people in their often red-state communities and are as racially diverse than the counties in which they reside. They are subcultural amenities not just for LGBT people but for straights as well, fostering cosmopolitan lifestyles for big geographical regions. I conclude with an argument for the importance of little cities to understand urbanism generally. Small cities are a key analytic dissent to disentangle urban effects from modern life generally. They reveal the way in which contemporary urban scholars often implicitly def