Speakg to ITV News, Ben Lewis talks about the prsur of livg as a straight man bee he did not believe there was any way to be a gay farmer.
Contents:
- LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
- THIS STORY OF GAY FARMERS KICKS OFF A DOCERI ABOUT DIVERSE HERO AGRICULTURE
- THIS RAL MATCHMAKG SERVICE HELPS GAY FARMERS FD LOVE
- MEET THE GAY FARMER BREAKG DOWN LGBT+ STEREOTYP FARMG
LGBTQ LERATURE: FARM BOYS: LIV OF GAY MEN OM THE RURAL MIDWT
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This is pecially te when pared to cy livg, where folks live close quarters and you’re much more likely to live near a gay or lbian bar. She had always had a love for agriculture, participatg 4H and FFA (Future Farmers of Ameri), but went to llege San Diego bee, she figured, that’s what you did if you were gay. “As queers, as gays and lbians, I thk we’ve always been much closer to nature than other people.
If the human race is to survive, gay people have to have more fluence.
THIS STORY OF GAY FARMERS KICKS OFF A DOCERI ABOUT DIVERSE HERO AGRICULTURE
“Whether he sensed I was gay, I don’t know. But he kept sayg how much he hated gays and that if saw any walkg down the street, he would beat the absolute sh out of them.
Can I work for you, and by the way, I’m also gay. “There’s no gay ghetto Iowa, and even though ’s not a bastn of liberalism, they let you live your life the way you want here, ” says Rsell, the State Food Policy Project Coordator at Drake Universy.
“It’s been great, ” Rsell adds, “bee now everyone wants to buy om the two gay farmers. It’s not a great way to meet other gay farmers. Everythg is changg this untry regardg gays and I’m not so odd anymore.
THIS RAL MATCHMAKG SERVICE HELPS GAY FARMERS FD LOVE
“What I want to tell you about is beg isolated om a gay populatn, ” Stanis says. “There are bars here, but I don’t want to hang out a du bar, ’s not a great way to meet other gay farmers and I don’t thk there are many up here.
“I don’t have trouble beg gay up here, but I do adm would be great if some guy wanted to meet a wonrful gay farmer who mak chee! He chose to live a ral settg spe the drawbacks bee “I didn’t want to live an urban, gay bubble, ” Stanis says.
For his part, Mossberg is grateful for the gays and lbians who farmed before him as they’ve prepared for him “a betiful life.
MEET THE GAY FARMER BREAKG DOWN LGBT+ STEREOTYP FARMG
How is as a German gay farmer?
Well, before you know you are gay, at least my se, you know that you are a farmer. In the begng, you feel lonely bee there are so few others like you around – and you feel even more lonely when you disver that you are gay.
Life as a gay the untrysi has bee more and more “normal. ” The acceptance our society is growg and that is very posive… but is still worth beg engaged wh the gay rights movement for equal rights. What’s like as a ral gay farmer?