'There’s so many gay Hutter': a rare voice begs pilgrimage for acceptance

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'THERE’S SO MANY GAY HUTTER': A RARE VOICE BEGS PILGRIMAGE FOR ACCEPTANCE

Kelly Hofer always felt different, but realizg you're gay while growg up on a Huttere lony ral Manoba isn't jt unual — 's almost unheard of. * gay hutterite *

”One of the few – if not the only – openly gay Hutter, Hofer has bee a rare voice phg for greater acceptance among the muny, whose nearly 50, 000 members live more than 450 loni wtern Canada and the Uned Stat.

“There’s so many gay Hutter and there’s nobody talkg about the subject. He first heard the word “gay” when he was outsi world felt far away, he says. “We will be classed as traors God’s ey, and we will live the darkt day all of Canada’s history, ” lears wrote a letter to Pl Mart, Canada’s then-prime was soon after that Hofer began realisg he might be gay.

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Kelly Hofer was about 16 when he realized that he was gay, but even before that he always knew he didn't f wh the other boys on his lony near Brandon. * gay hutterite *

On the lony, where many feared to even e the word gay, the ncept of a gay Huttere simply did not exist.

“My dream is for the Huttere culture to be acceptg of gay people like me, ” he posted onle. “I did to start a nversatn about homophobia on the lony. ” In dog so, Hofer had fally found his place the Huttere muny – as a voice on the outsi phg for change Hofer ns a support group on Facebook for gay Hutter.

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“Bee there’s a lot of gay Hutter at home and they’re not gog to go away.

ManobaStory of Kelly Hofer, gay Manoba Huttere, explored new documentaryKelly Hofer always felt different, but realizg you're gay while growg up on a Huttere lony ral Manoba isn't jt unual — 's almost unheard, 23, is a Calgary-based gay-rights activist and photographer om southwt Manoba · The Canadian Prs · Posted: Apr 03, 2016 11:45 AM EDT | Last Updated: April 3, 2016Kelly Hofer always felt different, but realizg you're gay while growg up on a Huttere lony ral Manoba isn't jt unual — 's almost unheard 23-year-old photographer's story has been rerd a short documentary film "Queer Huttere" which is available on Tel Optik TV on Demand and Tel Optik Lol Hofer is a photographer and gay-rights activist based Calgary.

'THERE’S SO MANY GAY HUTTER': A RARE VOICE BEGS PILGRIMAGE FOR ACCEPTANCE

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Members follow the teachgs of Christ and the Apostl, and although some are open to technology, they live a solary life and few thgs change, cludg their style of was about 16 when he realized that he was gay, but even before that he says he always knew he didn't f wh the other boys on his lony near Wawana southeast of Brandon. There were no other guys that I thought were gay. "I realized beg at home and beg gay were not patible.

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I was shunned that I uldn't e home bee I was gay for three years.

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"Hofer said there are other gay Hutter who have reached out to him for support.

CALGARY – Kelly Hofer always felt different, but realizg you’re gay while growg up on a Huttere lony ral Manoba isn’t jt unual — ’s almost unheard of. Hofer was about 16 when he realized that he was gay, but even before that he says he always knew he didn’t f wh the other boys on his lony near Wawana southeast of Brandon.

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“I realized beg at home and beg gay were not patible.

I was shunned that I uldn’t e home bee I was gay for three years. ”Hofer said there are other gay Hutter who have reached out to him for support. When Kelly Hofer me out as a gay Huttere seven years ago, he was pretty much the only person his relign to do so—and he was ostracized for .

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