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Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
by
Will Fellows
Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. "Farm Boys" undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United States. Whether painful, funny, or matter-of-fact, these plain-spoken accounts will mov...more
Paperback, 360 pages
Published
March 15th 1998
by University of Wisconsin Press
(first published 1996)
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Well, at least I'm back to reading, perhaps. Ang Lee had his 'Brokeback Mountain' leads read this before filming. I can certainly see why. For someone like myself - transplanted from the east coast - 'FB' is an illuminating read. The reasons for not coming out in the midwest do differ in some unexpected ways. But it's not surprising at all that all of these guys grew up in an environment in which homosexuality simply was not mentioned - or, if it was, it was thought of as that which dare not spe...more
I read this book as research for a story I wanted to write, and it completely changed not just the book I was researching but my perception of Midwestern gay men in general. I think this book also single-handedly turned me from a gay rights empathizer to a full-blown LGBT advocate. The pain revealed by the men in this book, all true stories, broke my heart and got me off my chair and into the One Iowa volunteer corps.
Most fascinating (and hopeful) is how vivid the progression throug...more
Most fascinating (and hopeful) is how vivid the progression throug...more
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True stories from gay boys growing up on farms. Painfully true. My sister had to read it for a class and hated it. I picked it up because, really, gay cowboys could never be bad. I was shocked by the honesty and shamelessness of these stories. It's refreshing.
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