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.
Contents:
- MEET THE GAY FARMER BREAKG DOWN LGBT+ STEREOTYP FARMG
- THIS RAL MATCHMAKG SERVICE HELPS GAY FARMERS FD LOVE
- GAY FARMERS GO NAKED TO HELP RAISE AWARENS OF MENTAL HEALTH
- THE PRIT GIVG AN OUTLET TO GAY FARMERS NORTHERN IRELAND WHO FEEL UNABLE TO E OUT
- NEW GAY FARMER FILM HERALD AS ‘BETTER THAN BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
MEET THE GAY FARMER BREAKG DOWN LGBT+ STEREOTYP FARMG
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© 2020 GCN (Gay Communy News). 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.
Ben Lewis has spoken openly about how he lived as a straight man bee he never saw a life for himself as a gay farmer. In 2010, Chapl Keh tablished the Gay Farmer Helple as a way for queer farmers to reach out and fd support. © 2019 GCN (Gay Communy News).
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THIS RAL MATCHMAKG SERVICE HELPS GAY FARMERS FD LOVE
When The Naked Farmer me to town lookg for people to get their k off, the e stck a chord wh dairy farmers Pl and Kerry Wilson, the latter havg left a wife and three children to bee openly gay the dairy dtry. * gay farmers ireland *
"It's been que a journey, to the pot where I left a wife and three sons to bee openly gay the dairy dtry, " Kerry said.
"Couple hop to help other gay farmers Kerry Wilson said he and Pl were "not the only gays the village".
'" Pl, Kerry said, "we weren't the only gays the village". "If there's normal, average, mastream people out there that happen to be gay, and some kid the bh se that person or that uple and thks, 'Oh yeah, that's me, ' then we've done our job, " Pl said. Dpe his helple havg been operatn for over six years, Canon Keh Inon says he still receiv a new se every week of a gay farmer or farm worker seekg help wh their silence over their sexualy.
GAY FARMERS GO NAKED TO HELP RAISE AWARENS OF MENTAL HEALTH
"Very often I am the first person they ever tell that they are gay and they are their fifti. Now what has that done to their mental health for the past 50 years? Bee they have known om when they were their early teens." * gay farmers ireland *
The prit timat there are around 800 gay farmers Northern Ireland and is worried that a large number of them are experiencg mental health issu bee they have never openly spoken about their sexualy. Canon Inon says the helple giv men the farmg world someone to talk to, and that “very often I am the first person they ever tell that they are gay and they are their fifti”. ‘You don’t hear about gay farmers’A lifelong Christian, Canon Inon me to fah via the Salvatn Army.
He me out as a gay man around ne years Inon started the agricultural chaplacy team his native Chhire around 16 years ago.
THE PRIT GIVG AN OUTLET TO GAY FARMERS NORTHERN IRELAND WHO FEEL UNABLE TO E OUT
God’s Own Country, a gay love story set Yorkshire, is beg lled ‘better than Brokeback Mounta'. * gay farmers ireland *
It began on a voluntary part time basis and has grown to prise 16 chaplas workg throughout the unty, a fundraisg group and a support group for farmers – around 40 people the team n by ‘Church Together Chhire’ verg all explaed how the helple began: “About six or seven years ago I worked wh a uple of gay farmers and sudnly h me that you don’t hear about gay farmers – they don’t exist. ‘I thought was gog to take months to get gog – but didn’t’“So I did some homework and I went to the Office of Natnal Statistics basilly to fd out how many gay farmers there were likely to be Chhire alone. I end up wh a figure of about 300 gay farmers or farm workers.
“I have done the same lculatns for Northern Ireland so if we work that through there are about 800 gay farmers or farm workers.
NEW GAY FARMER FILM HERALD AS ‘BETTER THAN BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
The helple ticked along for a uple of years and then the Methodist Church head office London rang me and said the church has had such a bad prs about gay issu ’s about time we put right.
Farmg is top of the suici league and mental health problems are rife and one four gay men will attempt suici at some stage of their liv, so if you put the suici problems the farmg dtry wh the gay life as well you’ve got a real recipe for disaster. “Wh the helple they have got somebody to talk to and very often I am the first person they ever tell that they are gay and they are their fifti.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
”He says that a lot of s the fai do not spect the farmer is gay; “They are not Larry Grayson typ, they are normal workg farmers and of urse the farmg muny you have a very good exce for not gettg married if you don’t have to, maybe bee you’ve never found the right person or they are too by workg. Then off urse the police were volved and turned out the fellow was tryg to kill himself bee he was gay and he uldn’t pe wh . And the man said ‘my father said if I had known he was gay I would have left him there to die’.