And when you’re done with the map, please animate it kthxbai). All these small-city gay bars have drag shows, and all the shows feature queens from neighboring small cities and the nearby metropolises. As Jamie Wilson says, “We have a few local queens, but we pull from Little Rock-there’s some really good queens out in Little Rock.” Thus even bars that are more than 60 miles apart share patrons and entertainers ( Someone should map the migratory patterns of drag queens. Like many of the places we’ve visited, Jamie Wilson, the manager and one of C4’s co-owners, doesn’t call it a gay club because “we are fighting for equality so hard, why label ourselves to make it feel like we’re exclusive? We’ll protect anyone.” At the same time, the club is open about being gay-owned: “we are proud of that, we are not going to be in the closet about that at all.”Īlthough the bars are an hour’s drive apart, they are linked. It’s not a bar that you can just drift into for a drink and a chat: it has a cover charge and is where you go to dance after a night of drinking at other bars. C4 in Fayetteville is a slick nightclub in a new commercial development along a bike path on Dickson street, the main party district for the University of Arkansas.