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Gay men have generally been stereotyped as cy dwellers wh jobs hairdrsg and the media. Few are reprented the rough, tough, down-and-dirty

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GAY FARMER HELPLINE

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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.

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Here at The Gay Farmer our social rponsibily is very important to , although fancially at prent we are unable to donate hard sh, that only mak more amb what we n do! By donatg our products, raisg awarens, tacklg stigma and tryg to make this betiful world ee of prejudice, wh a * gay farmer uk *

We unrstand that beg gay isn’t always easy and like most people we have our ups and downs. 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! 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.

Gay men have generally been stereotyped as cy dwellers wh jobs hairdrsg and the media. And asi om characters the ral soap Emmerdale’s and Ltle Bra’s satiril siswipe wh only-gay--the-village Daffyd, ’s rare to see gay men prented as farmers. 7% of the populatn intified as lbian, gay or bisexual, based on a survey of 238, 000 people.

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Statistics released more recently by the ONS s report Subnatnal sexual inty timate UK, 2013 to 2015 seemed to nfirm the hypothis of gay men beg predomately cy dwellg.

8% and ral Devon was timated to have a higher proportn of gay and lbian (1.

1%) – the unty that clus gay mec, Brighton and Hove. Such figur might not show huge numbers of gay men livg ral lotns, but they do prove they are not absent om them. This was no surprise to Canon Keh Inon, who nducted his own rearch ahead of settg up the Gay Farmer Helple.

GAY FARMERS OPEN UP ABOUT HOMOPHOBIC STIGMA THAT LEAV MANY NSIRG SUICI

Keh, an ex-farmer who received a Brish Empire Medal the 2016 New Year’s Honours for his servic to the farmg muny Chhire, says lls to his gay farmer helple me thick and fast om the moment of s ceptn 2009. “About six or seven years ago I found I was workg wh a uple of gay farmers, ” he explas.

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“And, of urse, you don’t hear about gay farmers. Even if we accept the realy of gay men workg agriculture as a real – albe small – prence, why should the majory of the farmg muny worry about the support they might need? But what’s the lk between homosexualy and young people?

Pamela Cobb of the ONS’s populatn statistics divisn pots out that people between 16 and 24 years old are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual pared wh olr age groups, and that a higher proportn of mal intify as LGB than femal. For the gay farmers I spoke to, the perceptn of homophobia and a fear of isolatn were two ma factors they felt uld rult good people beg driven om the dtry.

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