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Contents:
- THE ISOLATED LIV OF NORTH DAKOTA'S GAY OIL FIELD WORKERS
- WEBSE IS A BIG SCAM - RIP OFF - DID I SAY SCAM INTER
- JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
- GAY ROUGHNECKS DON'T FALL FOR FALSE E-ONS. INTER
THE ISOLATED LIV OF NORTH DAKOTA'S GAY OIL FIELD WORKERS
Though attus are slowly shiftg the nservative state, gay men who e for lucrative work the boomg Bakken shale formatn often feel prsured to keep their inti hidn. * gay roughnecks *
Like most such enunters the oil patch, ours origated on Grdr, the mobile hookup app for gay, bisexual, and cur men.
"You make money up here and you leave, " another gay worker, a 23-year-old who works for a pany that rents and sells motors to drill wells, told me. "And leav ltle time for gay men to build a muny. Onle platforms like Grdr provi a means for some gay workers the area to nnect wh one another.
WEBSE IS A BIG SCAM - RIP OFF - DID I SAY SCAM INTER
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JAKE'S STORY OF BEG GAY RAL ATRALIA
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Others figure the risk of creatg ictn at the workplace isn't worth their peace of the vast majory of employers the state, most pani the oil patch do not provi discrimatn protectns for gay and trans workers. That means, if you're a roughneck who's out on the job—or a tck driver, or a welr, or a pipe fter—your boss n probably fire you for beg gay, and there's not a damn thg you n do about .
GAY ROUGHNECKS DON'T FALL FOR FALSE E-ONS. INTER
Are no gay bars North Dakota. The state's three biggt ci, Bismarck, Grand Forks, and Fargo, offer the ocsnal drag show, but they, too, are hours away om the Starle Club, one of the regn's few LGBT-iendly bars Mot, a growg cy of 46, 000 on the eastern edge of the patch, is the clost there is to a gay mec the parts. Last year, the group Pri Mot held weekly viewg parti for the TV show RuPl's Drag Race, and plans to do the same for the show's upg, there are a uple of Mot bars that are known for attractg a sizable gay male clientele—a mix of lols, airmen, and oil hands willg to make the trek.