The Gay Farmer Helple is helpg to break silence on gay people farmg. We speak to founr Keh Inon about how he is helpg gay farmers.
Contents:
- GAY FARMER HELPLINE
- HOW A GAY HELPLE IS SUPPORTG HUNDREDS OF ISOLATED LGBTQ FARMERS
- MENTAL HEALTH ISSU ARE RISG AMONG GAY FARMERS — BUT ONE MAN IS MAKG A REAL DIFFERENCE
- A LIFELE FOR GAY FARMERS
- THE SECRET LIV OF GAY FARMERS
- MEET THE GAY FARMER BREAKG DOWN LGBT+ STEREOTYP FARMG
- GAY FARMER HELPLE
- GAY FARMER HELPLE
- THE CHAPLA WHO HELPS GAY FARMERS
GAY FARMER HELPLINE
* gay farmers helpline *
The helple is there to support dividuals to discs and share their thoughts, feelgs and ncerns about beg gay.
I’m “out” and que fortable beg a gay man. We unrstand that beg gay isn’t always easy and like most people we have our ups and downs.
HOW A GAY HELPLE IS SUPPORTG HUNDREDS OF ISOLATED LGBTQ FARMERS
Speakg to ITV News, Ben Lewis talks about the prsur of livg as a straight man bee he did not believe there was any way to be a gay farmer. * gay farmers helpline *
Is the Gay Farmer helple only available to gay farmers?
If my iends fd out I’m gay, I’m petrified of losg them. However, many s your iends may have already spected that you were gay and when they do fd out, may make ls of a al of than yourself!
MENTAL HEALTH ISSU ARE RISG AMONG GAY FARMERS — BUT ONE MAN IS MAKG A REAL DIFFERENCE
To keep the gay farmers helple nng * gay farmers helpline *
Remember, those type of iends uld be replaced by hont, scere, gay iends whose iendship would be unndnal and who would value you for the person you are. Farmg muni are ually small, tight-kn and, often nservative, makg extremely difficult to live an openly gay life.
A LIFELE FOR GAY FARMERS
On top of this, there is immense prsure to produce a heir to work on the farm, leadg many gay farmers to the closet. Sce 2010, Canon Keh Inon has n a helple voted to gay farmers who are experiencg mental health problems, social excln over their sexualy or are havg trouble g out.
THE SECRET LIV OF GAY FARMERS
Inon has helped hundreds of gay farmers e to terms wh their sexualy and live more plete liv.
MEET THE GAY FARMER BREAKG DOWN LGBT+ STEREOTYP FARMG
“I was the agricultural chapla Chhire [a unty northwt England] for about 15 years and around six years ago I found myself workg wh a few gay farmers, ” says Inon. “Even though I’m gay myself, you don’t really hear about gay farmers, ’s almost like they don’t exist, but of urse they do – ’s jt that their problems aren’t spoken about.
GAY FARMER HELPLE
Before settg up the helple, Inon went to the Office for Natnal Statistics to fd out how many farmers worked Chhire and om the figur timated that there were close to 300 gay farmers workg the unty alone.
Wh jt a mobile phone to receive lls and an advert a farmers’ newspaper; the Gay Farmer Helple was lnched.
GAY FARMER HELPLE
From the first few days of operatn gay farmers have been llg to the helple and even now Inon is averagg one new se every week. Inon rells a Sunday morng when a farmer lled up the helple panickg about havg unprotected gay sex, after gog out on the gay scene for the first time the night before. As their children go off to Universy or beg workg at the fay farm, many gay farmers beg to ask themselv difficult qutns about their future and thk about g out.
The plex circumstanc ntribute to the extremely high suici rate of farmers, wh the isolatn faced by ral farmers bed wh anti-gay stigma drivg the suici rat of gay farmers even higher. Inon believ that although there may be higher levels of homophobia the farmg muny than other parts of society, the bigger problem is the fear of g out rather than the experience self.
THE CHAPLA WHO HELPS GAY FARMERS
” Dpe the wispread verage of both Inon and his Gay Farmer Helple natnal prs, he has only heard om 13 people the past who said they don’t approve of his ia.
Equally, ral farmers the hills of Wal or the Highlands of Stland face many addnal challeng livg an openly gay life but, general, the worst fears most farmers have about tellg iends and fay they are gay simply don’t materialise.