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Posted August 31st, 2010 by Evan Hurst

So, this exists:

Gay farmers in Canada have come out–and banded together in a social club where they can talk about crops and the weather, just like any other farmer, reported Canadian newspaper The National Post on July 27.

The Gay Farmers Club is one of a number of groups that operate under the aegis of Au coeur des familles agricoles (ACFA), an organization created to help Canada’s farmers with the pressures that modern life–along with soaring debt, international trade, and a gap between how people in other lines of work live their lives, and how farmers are tied–literally, and often without a break–to the land.

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“We share personal stories, but mostly we discuss farming and agriculture,” one member told the publication. “It’s great because we face similar challenges as both farmers and gay people living in rural regions–and we don’t need to explain ourselves.”

I post this because it’s fun, but also because it just shows, yet again, that we are everywhere, and some of us are growing and preparing your food, so you should be nice.

Seriously, though, you always hear the “pro-family” crowd rail agianst “San Francisco valyews” and “East Coast lib’ruls,” and Peter LaBarbera likes to say that people in communities full of bigots should be free to make discriminatory, hateful laws against gay people, but really, we ARE everywhere, in every community. These are Canadians, so they’re obviously more protected than we are in the United States, but maybe one day we’ll get there.

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3 Comments »

  1. Way cool.

    Comment by Buffy — August 31, 2010 @ 4:17 pm

  2. Regarding farm boys—There is an interesting book, published in 1996, entitled “Farm Boys, Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest.” It relates the stories of 25 men who grew up on Midwestern farms, based on interviews by author Will Fellows, published by University of Wisconsin Press. It clearly portrays their feelings of fear, isolation and loneliness as well as problems with other family members, especially fathers. It’s worth reading.

    Jerry

    Comment by Jerry Johnson — August 31, 2010 @ 10:50 pm

  3. This is Phillip hear ,this is great ive been a farmer all my life ,and gay . Me and my partner are in the midst of buying some land any good land deals any advice as far as land goes would be apreciiated thkyou

    Comment by Phillip karoway and jerry cloke — December 22, 2011 @ 5:51 am

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