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- THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
- GLOUCTERSHIRE GAY YOUNG FARMER SHAR HIS G-OUT STORY
- A GAY FARMER ON LOVE, ISOLATN, AND DISPTG THE MEAT INDTRY ATRALIA
- THIS STORY OF GAY FARMERS KICKS OFF A DOCERI ABOUT DIVERSE HERO AGRICULTURE
- LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
- GLOUCTERSHIRE GAY YOUNG FARMER SHAR HIS G-OUT STORY
- MEET THE GAY FARMER BREAKG DOWN LGBT+ STEREOTYP FARMG
THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
A Yorkshire farmer's journal om 1810 reveals surprisgly morn views on beg gay. * farmer gay *
“As queers, as gays and lbians, I thk we’ve always been much closer to nature than other people. If the human race is to survive, gay people have to have more fluence.
GLOUCTERSHIRE GAY YOUNG FARMER SHAR HIS G-OUT STORY
Ben Lewis never thought he uld be both openly gay and a farmer. Now, he is fally livg his tth after g out and fdg love. * farmer gay *
“Whether he sensed I was gay, I don’t know. But he kept sayg how much he hated gays and that if saw any walkg down the street, he would beat the absolute sh out of them. Can I work for you, and by the way, I’m also gay.
A GAY FARMER ON LOVE, ISOLATN, AND DISPTG THE MEAT INDTRY ATRALIA
In “Alone Out Here,” by Philip Bfield and Le Cornish, an Atralian rancher who is openly gay a nservative dtry fights to rce rbon emissns through his ttle farmg. * farmer gay *
“There’s no gay ghetto Iowa, and even though ’s not a bastn of liberalism, they let you live your life the way you want here, ” says Rsell, the State Food Policy Project Coordator at Drake Universy. “It’s been great, ” Rsell adds, “bee now everyone wants to buy om the two gay farmers.
THIS STORY OF GAY FARMERS KICKS OFF A DOCERI ABOUT DIVERSE HERO AGRICULTURE
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It’s not a great way to meet other gay farmers. Everythg is changg this untry regardg gays and I’m not so odd anymore.
LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
“What I want to tell you about is beg isolated om a gay populatn, ” Stanis says. “There are bars here, but I don’t want to hang out a du bar, ’s not a great way to meet other gay farmers and I don’t thk there are many up here.
GLOUCTERSHIRE GAY YOUNG FARMER SHAR HIS G-OUT STORY
“I don’t have trouble beg gay up here, but I do adm would be great if some guy wanted to meet a wonrful gay farmer who mak chee! He chose to live a ral settg spe the drawbacks bee “I didn’t want to live an urban, gay bubble, ” Stanis says.
For his part, Mossberg is grateful for the gays and lbians who farmed before him as they’ve prepared for him “a betiful life. This is pecially te when pared to cy livg, where folks live close quarters and you’re much more likely to live near a gay or lbian bar.
Image ptn, Claire Pickerg Wakefield library imag the diary wrer speakg a Yorkshire accentA diary wrten by a Yorkshire farmer more than 200 years ago is beg hailed as providg remarkable evince of tolerance towards homosexualy Bra much earlier than prevly imaged. Historians om Oxford Universy have been taken aback to disver that Matthew Tomlson's diary om 1810 ntas such open-md views about same-sex attractn beg a "natural" human diary challeng prenceptns about what "ordary people" thought about homosexualy - showg there was a bate about whether someone really should be discrimated agast for their sexualy. "In this excg new disvery, we see a Yorkshire farmer argug that homosexualy is nate and somethg that shouldn't be punished by ath, " says Oxford rearcher Eamonn O' ptn, The diari were handwrten by Tomlson the farmhoe where he lived and workedThe historian had been examg Tomlson's handwrten diari, which have been stored Wakefield Library sce the thoands of pag of the private journals have never been transcribed and prevly ed by rearchers terted Tomlson's eye-wns acunts of electns Yorkshire and the Ludd smashg up O'Keeffe me across what seemed, for the era of Gee III, to be a rather startlg set of arguments about same-sex relatnships.
MEET THE GAY FARMER BREAKG DOWN LGBT+ STEREOTYP FARMG
Tomlson had been prompted by what had been a big sex sndal of the day - which a well-rpected naval surgeon had been found to be engagg homosexual ptn, Historian Eamonn O'Keeffe says the diari provi a rare sight to the views of "ordary people" the early 1800sA urt martial had orred him to be hanged - but Tomlson seemed unnvced by the cisn, qutng whether what the papers lled an "unnatural act" was really that unnatural. "It mt seem strange ed that God Almighty should make a beg wh such a nature, or such a fect nature; and at the same time make a cree that if that beg whom he had formed, should at any time follow the dictat of that Nature, wh which he was formed, he should be punished wh ath, " he wrote on January 14 there was an "clatn and propensy" for someone to be homosexual om an early age, he wrote, " mt then be nsired as natural, otherwise as a fect nature - and if natural, or a fect nature; seems cel to punish that fect wh ath" diarist mak reference to beg rmed by others that homosexualy is apparent om an early age - suggtg that Tomlson and his social circle had been talkg about this se and discsg somethg that was not unknown to this time, and also Wt Yorkshire, a lol landowner, Anne Lister, was wrg a d diary about her lbian relatnships - wh her story told the televisn seri, Gentleman knowg what "ordary people" really thought about such behavur is always difficult - not least bee the loust survivg voic are ually the wealthy and has exced amics is the chance to eavdrop on an everyday farmer thkg aloud his source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Tomlson was appalled by the levels of rptn durg electns"What's strikg is that he's an ordary guy, he's not a member of the bohemian circl or an tellectual, " says O'Keeffe, a doctoral stunt Oxford's history acceptance of homosexualy might have been exprsed privately aristocratic or philosophilly radil circl - but this was beg discsed by a ral worker.