Carbondale's innovative urbanism and how homophobic is Chicago's hyper-gentrification and the divide between urban and small-town queers

We live in a reality where queer people are forced to upend themselves and move to Illinois at immense personal and financial cost so as to save their lives. In Carbondale there has been enough newcomers that the city rebuilt the train station around it having a workforce hub attached where those arriving with nothing but a suitcase can get connected to resources before even stepping outside. In Chicago meanwhile, urban queers sneer at smaller places in ways that are, in a way, homophobic, while also being pushed out to places like Peoria, where the natives resist in ways that are in fact homophobic.