When most people thk of farms, they probably don't thk of gay men. Maybe they should, though. "I raised and took re of my own steer and pigs and dairy ttle," Dennis Ldholm, a gay man, said about his childhood. In "Farm Boys: Liv of Gay Men om the Rural Midwt," thor Will Fellows tri to brg rears to a better unrstandg of the diversy of gay men -- and the diversy wh each gay men -- by helpg gay "farm boys" tell their stori.
Contents:
- LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
- A VERMONT PRODUCTN OF 'FARM BOYS' EXPLOR GAY RURAL LIFE
- FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN FROM THE RURAL MIDWT
- GAY FARM BOY
- FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
- FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT PAPERBACK – MARCH 1, 2001
- GAY FARM BOYS
LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
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In the sprg of 1992, Milwkee wrer Will Fellows began terviewg 75 gay men, ag 25 to 84, who'd grown up farm fai throughout the Midwt. Fellows, himself a gay man raised on a Wisns dairy farm, knew that many mal like himself, who'd subsequently fled to larger metropolan areas, felt like outsirs among their urban unterparts. Fellows' goal was to give voice to the experienc of ral gay men who were typilly overlooked or ignored by gay urban culture — or else, as he wrote, simultaneoly stereotyped and romanticized as wholome and virile "untry bumpks wh rosy cheeks, ready to be plucked if they venture to the big cy.
The oute of Fellows' terviews was his 1996 book Farm Boys: Liv of Gay Men From the Rural Midwt, a pilatn of 36 personal narrativ of gay men, most of whom had abandoned ral livg.
" Though Zak nixed Founta's first ia about gay divorce — "In Illois, we're still celebratg gay marriage! " he says — he was trigued by her other ia of portrayg life ral gay Ameri. WF: As I was dog the terviews, then later shapg them to narrativ for publitns, I was stck over and over aga by what a personally illumatg experience this was: the sights I gaed to beg a gay male, a person om a ral background who was no longer livg and breathg farm life, yet how some of s fluenc had rried over.
A VERMONT PRODUCTN OF 'FARM BOYS' EXPLOR GAY RURAL LIFE
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WF: Even though most of the men I terviewed were no longer farmg — 's not a book about gay farmers — I was stck by how often they exhibed a certa longg for a return to that life and, sometim, even had ltle fantasi about perhaps one day beg able to have some land the untry.
Back the early '90s, a major propellg force for many of the men to ntact me and tell me about their liv me out of the whole HIV hysteria, and not jt the monizatn [of gay men], but also the vast dyg that was unr way, and the need to tell the world who we are, where we e om and what we're about. Some people thk this is some sort of a dig agast ral life, that thgs mt be really horrible [for ral gay men]. So one of the characters talks about how he and his partner raise pigs, and none of their gay iends n believe that they love their pigs.
FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN FROM THE RURAL MIDWT
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A mpg trip turns to a ral gay fantasy Yuma X's new mic vio, "Secret Lover. Homosexualy is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed om ral and small-town life. Farm Boys unrm that cliché by tellg the stori of more than three dozen gay men, rangg age om 24 to 84, who grew up farm fai the midwtern Uned Stat.
Whether paful, funny, or matter-of-fact, the pla-spoken acunts will move and te any rear, gay or not, om farm or cy.
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GAY FARM BOY
gayral is a non judgmental group for all untry liftyle LGBTQ2+ people who live outsi ci ral and small town muni. A place to e together to meet like-md folks or discs issu related to beg gay a ral settg.
Two gay farmers feature next, and talk about farmg the Waikato, and their jobs as horse traer and shearer. Reviewed the Uned Stat on March 7, 2023As an olr gay man attracted to young hunks, the ver spoke to me.
FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
When I read that 's about gay men raised on farms the Midwt, ok, y! Reviewed the Uned Stat on October 6, 2022A ser examatn of an overlooked segment of the gay muny, and told their own words. The lonels which an emergg gay personaly mt feel the solu that characteriz most Amerin farms mt be overbearg at tim.
A key element many of the stori told this book is fai which do not and nnot unrstand homosexualy until to roost at home. Will Fellows has add an important ntributn to gay male history, and he is to be highly praised for .
FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT PAPERBACK – MARCH 1, 2001
Reviewed the Uned Stat on June 5, 2007I really enjoyed readg this llectn of stori very much and learned que a b about liv of gay men who grew up on farms. Suppose I wouldn't of had a choice if I had been born to a farm fay--but I certaly do see where the fellas have a 'hard row to hoe' (y, a pun but still ser) bee if they DO like farm life, they wouldn't have such a good life beg gay.
GAY FARM BOYS
Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 14, 2022We generally thk of gay men urban settgs. Reviewed the Uned Stat on June 12, 2014The life of the urban gay man is the one we see on screen, the one marchg at Pri ftivals, and the one given the most Will Fellows llects the life stori of the men who grew up the farm lands of Ameri's ral midwt, and this talogue of liv om men who more often than not grew up strict German hom where sexualy (and certaly not homosexualy) were not discsed is a fascatg mixture. The stori range om btal acunts to some that sound almost idyllic, and shows how the men feel their very different upbrgg shaped acunts are chronologil, and show not only the changg acceptance of gay men (slow, and hidn) but also the loss of the old-style farms wh their variety of livtock and crops to great bs farms wh only one product.
Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 30, 2015Very personal acunts of growg up gay on a farm. Reviewed the Uned Stat on January 7, 2008Thoands of gay men have moved to and live big cy gay muni, but no one is ever born there.
This book is the separate acunts of gay men who grew up on farms the Midwt. Farmg n be isolatg enough but for a gay teenager there was double the isolatn upled wh plete lack of knowledge about their sexualy or that there were others like them. They wanted their sons to follow their footsteps but probably realised this wasn't gog to happen wh the 'gay' one.