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A short documentary tellg the stori of gay people the farmg muny has won ternatnal regnn and praise for sparkg nversatns

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THE SECRET LIV OF GAY FARMERS

Landle | Landle is a short documentary about the only helple the UK for gay farmers. Through a seri of rerd telephone… * landline gay farmers *

In the Uned Kgdom, there is only one hotle for gay farmers. Growg up gay a muny that prized tradnal masculy, Inon felt isolated.

Landle, a short documentary om Matt Houghton, featur the voic of gay farmers who have lled to Inon’s hotle.

In the film’s rerd telephone nversatns, gay Brish farmers share their ndid and often shockg experienc. There was no such thg as a gay farmer.

‘LANDLE’ EXPLOR THE WORLD OF GAY FARMERS IN A REAL LIFE VERSN OF ‘GOD’S OWN COUNTRY’

Although the romantic enunter picted God’s Own Country is ultimately upliftg, the mud-splattered lonels of life as a gay farmer is often wrought wh pa. Sce was tablished 2009, the Gay Farmer Helple has received hundreds of lls om farmers who are stgglg to pe an dtry that priz tradnal masculy above all else.

DOCUMENTARY AIMS TO BREAK SILENCE ON GAY PEOPLE FARMG

While unlikely gay scen n often be found even the most ral of lotns, those who e the helple are ually aged 50 or over and believe that they’re the only people around who share the same sir.

THIS RAL MATCHMAKG SERVICE HELPS GAY FARMERS FD LOVE

Clearly, ’s not easy beg gay this kd of environment, but even then, dienc might be surprised by how tough this life really is. However, soon beme apparent that the stranger tried to kill himself bee he’s gay and at that pot, the father reveals that if he had known this before, he would have left the man to die. Believg that his father would have left someone to die bee of his sexualy mt have been trmatizg for a young boy who’s jt started figurg out who he is, pecially if his only ntact wh other gay men volv suici.

VIO: GAY FARMER STORI SHARED EMOTNAL LANDLE FILM

As we hear the stori told the nversatns, Landle provis a ndid and often shockg snapshot of what isolated gay people endure.

RICHARD OXLEY - CHANGG VIEWS ON GAY FARMERS

To fd out more about the Gay Farmer Helple, please vis Keh Insen’s sehere. A short film spired by the gay son of a farmer is seekg to open up nversatns about farmers who may be stgglg silence wh their sexualy.

Two years ago Rupert Williams, who’s father is a Lanshire dairy farmer, began workg wh award-wng filmmaker Matt Houghton, havg rearched homosexualy ral areas some years earlier.

GAY FARMER HELPLINE

Part of his own vtigatn led him to ntact Chhire-based farmer-turned-chapla Keh Inon, who set up the only helple dited to gay farmers 2010.

See also: How acceptg is the untrysi of gay people? Couple that wh the fact that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people are at a far greater risk of mental health problems, which clus havg thoughts about endg their liv, and you’ve got a recipe that puts gay farmers an extremely high-risk tegory. “There’s no roadmap to dog this sort of thg and was difficult for me growg up, ” Rupert explas, thkg about his own experienc as a gay man beg part of a farmg fay.

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