LGBTQ Lerature: Farm Boys: Liv of Gay Men om the Rural Midwt

Contents:

• FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS
• FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT 2ND EDN, KDLE EDN
• GAY FARM BOY
• GAY FARM BOYS
• A VERMONT PRODUCTN OF 'FARM BOYS' EXPLOR GAY RURAL LIFE 
• LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
• FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT

FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS

ESSAY | LIFE | RURAL LIVING | LGBT+ | AUTOBIOGRAPHYFive Years Old and Gay Rural, Wtern KansasThe remarkable story of Kev and the doghoe(Not a Medium member? I knew I was gay at age five. That is, I had feelgs, sir, pulsns, and attractns that I still had at 11 and would then regnize as homosexualy.

My sneakg spicn that the feelgs were very wrong beme realy when my grandmother found out urse, at five, I had no ncept of beg gay. Ined, 1953, the word was not yet e the sense of beg homosexual.

Neher did I know the word homosexual.

FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT 2ND EDN, KDLE EDN

Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on March 7, 2023As an olr gay man attracted to young hunks, the ver spoke to me. 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 .

GAY FARM BOY

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.

GAY FARM BOYS

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. 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.

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

This book is the separate acunts of gay men who grew up on farms the Midwt. Reviewed Japan ?? on March 16, 2003　アメリカではこれまでにも、ゲイについての本は何冊も書かれてきた。しかしそのほとんどが、ニューヨークやサンフランシスコといった都市部に住む人たちについてだった。都市にゲイが集中する必然性はあるが、ゲイがいるのは都市ばかりとはかぎらない。アメリカの中西部の農場で生まれ育ったゲイの人たちの生活はどんなものなのだろう。彼らの体験を知るべく、GAY FARM BOYS PROJECT という組織を作り、アメリカの中西部のゲイコミュニティの団体に協力をしてくれる人を募った。すると120人からの返答があった。そのうちから75人を選び、著者が出かけていってインタビューをしてまとめたのがこの本である。　この地域（ral Midwt) は、ドイツやスカンディナヴィア諸国からの白人の移民が多い。コミュニティは教会でしっかりとまとまり、子どもでも早くから一人前の働き手として仕事をまかせられる。親戚以外は外から訪れる人もほとんどいない。隣の家といっても、見えるところにあるような近場ではない。人々の考え方はまだまだ保守的である。そういう環境のなかで、両親との関係はどうだったのか。どのように性に目覚め、ゲイであるという自覚をもったのか。どんな性体験をもち、どんなふうに相手を探し求めたのか。また農場で育ったということが、今の生活にどんな影響を与えているのか。これらの質問に、24歳から84歳までの75人の男たちが真摯に答えている。　年代ごとに並べられているので、ゲイに対するアメリカ社会の認識の変化も読みとれる。家族や宗教にもまして彼らを悩ましているのは、地理上の孤立感だ。少し前まではこの世の中に自分と同じような性癖の人がいることを知らなかった、こう告白する者さえいる。WASPというマジョリティのなかで、マイノリティを選びとった彼らの声には、アメリカという国の広さがもたらす孤独がくっきりと刻印されている。.

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.

Two gay farmers feature next, and talk about farmg the Waikato, and their jobs as horse traer and shearer.

LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT

"[My dad] was the person I was most nervo to tell [that I was gay], but [he] wound up beg the easit, " Brandon says.

When most people thk of ttle, they probably don't thk of gay they should, though.

FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT

"I raised and took re of my own steer and pigs and dairy ttle, " Dennis Ldholm, a gay man, said about his 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" om the Midwt tell their stori. "If I had stayed on the farm, I would have never alt wh beg gay, " Richard Gilmer said.

"What I accepted was that [beg gay] was a fact of my life, " Ebmeier said. "His nfn ntued when he entered the gay muny and found he really didn't f there eher. "I knew I was gay but I didn't enjoy the banter, I wasn't to style, I wasn't to the thgs they did.

"I knew there are a lot of people like me the gay muny, but I never met any of them, -- maybe bee, like me, they are at home stewg over somethg. The man said "after all the years, I am still the victim of beg a gay farm boy. He had the opportuny to put any words and ias he wanted the mouth of the often anonymo people, but after readg his tailed scriptns of how the participants were soliced and terviewed, rears will e to tst him and perhaps be grateful for his ntributn to gay history and the pag of Fellows' work is a better unrstandg of all gay men through the stori of a few farm boys.