The decline in the number of gay bars is frequently blamed on smartphone apps, rising social tolerance, or gentrification. Our understandings of changes in gay bars are obscured by a gayborhood bias, a disproportionate focus on LGBTQ life in metropolitan cities like San Francisco, London, or Chicago. I grew up provincial and I again live in the provinces, and I like it that way! It’s below.īy the way, I don’t mean anything bad by the word provincial. I’m giving this presentation at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference.
