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ARE RURAL GAYS HAPPIER THAN CY GAYS?
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Pop portrayals of LGBTQ Amerins tend to feature urban gay life, om Ru Pl’s “Drag Race” and “Queer Eye” and “Pose. But not all gay people live ci. Sce 2015 I have nducted terviews wh 40 ral LGBTQ people and analyzed var survey data sets to unrstand the ral gay experience.
My study found that many LGBTQ people ral areas view their sexual inty substantially differently om their urban unterparts – and qutn the mers of urban gay life.
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Posive social and legal shifts have led to chang “gayborhoods,” but we haven’t que evolved past the pot of needg them. * urban gay *
The standard narrative of ral gay life is that ’s tough for LGBTQ kids who flee their ral hometowns for inic urban “gayborhoods” like Chigo’s Boystown or the Castro San Francis – plac where they n fd love, feel “normal” and be surround by others like them. ” The gay protagonists of the films are lonely, seldom able to exprs their sexual selv.
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Those who returned home om urban gayborhoods also told me they found gay cy livg rarely livered on s promis of pannship and cln. Rural LGBTQ Amerins are ls likely to participate inic gay rights events like the Pri para, terviews and survey data fd.