Farm Boys: Liv of Gay Men om the Rural Midwt: Fellows, Will: 9780299150846: Books

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

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!

A VERMONT PRODUCTN OF 'FARM BOYS' EXPLOR GAY RURAL LIFE 

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FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN FROM THE RURAL MIDWT

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. 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].

GAY FARM BOY

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. 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: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT

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. LGBT Studi, Diversy, Genr and Sexualy, Gay men, Género y Sexualidad, Gênero e Sexualida, Comg of age, Midwt Stat, Gay & Lbian Studi.

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FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT PAPERBACK – MARCH 1, 2001

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GAY FARM BOYS

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