Diversy agriculture: Matt Naylor on beg a gay farmer | Eat Farm Now

Contents:

• THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
• IS MATTHEW GAY
• A GAY FARMER ON LOVE, ISOLATN, AND DISPTG THE MEAT INDTRY ATRALIA
• THIS STORY OF GAY FARMERS KICKS OFF A DOCERI ABOUT DIVERSE HERO AGRICULTURE

THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY

I n remember, I was about 10 years old, beg at my grandparents hoe when an em me on the news about gay rights. I left school to go to work wh my gay-dog-hatg grandad and my father on a 120 acre farm a populated and unprospero b of South Llnshire the Uned Kgdom.

IS MATTHEW GAY

I ped wh the circumstanc by listeng to the Smhs pretty much non-stop on a CD Walkman for five years, before pluckg up the urage to tell my bt iend, Melanie, that I was gay when I was 20. When I first me out, I had never actually met another gay person, certaly no one who intified themselv as gay.

A GAY FARMER ON LOVE, ISOLATN, AND DISPTG THE MEAT INDTRY ATRALIA

I hadn’t even seen a credible or posive gay character on the televisn.

THIS STORY OF GAY FARMERS KICKS OFF A DOCERI ABOUT DIVERSE HERO AGRICULTURE

The joyo thg is that once you e out, all those dly homophobic remarks that you endured at social gathergs stop beg ma ont of you.