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Record Nr.

UNINA9910655098703321

Titolo

Farm boys : lives of gay men from the rural Midwest / / collected and edited by Will Fellows

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c1998

ISBN

0-299-15089-5

1-282-62283-8

9786612622830

0-299-15083-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FellowsWill

Disciplina

305.38/9664

Soggetti

Farmers - Middle West

Rural gay men - Middle West

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint of the edition published c1996. With a new afterword by Will Fellows.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- How These Stories Were Discovered -- Farming Glossary -- Introduction -- PART 1: Coming of Age Before the Mid-1960s -- Introduction -- Cornelius Utz, Missouri -- Robert Peters, Wisconsin -- Henry Bauer, Minnesota -- Harry Beckner, Nebraska -- Jim Cross, Iowa -- Dennis Lindholm, Iowa -- James Heckman, Indiana -- John Beutel, Wisconsin -- Myron Turk, Wisconsin -- Norm Reed, Ohio -- Ronald Schoen, Minnesota -- PART 2: Coming of Age Between the Mid-1960s and Mid-1970s -- Introduction -- David Foster, Wisconsin -- Doug Edwards, Indiana -- Bill Troxell, Indiana -- Larry Ebmeier, Nebraska -- Martin Scherz, Nebraska -- Richard Kilmer, Wisconsin -- Heinz Koenig, Wisconsin -- Tom Rygh, Wisconsin -- Dale Hesterman, Ohio -- Frank Morse, Wisconsin -- Mark Vanderbeek, Nebraska -- Everett Cooper, Indiana -- John Berg, Minnesota -- PART 3: Coming of Age Between the Mid-1970s and Mid-1980s -- Introduction -- David Campbell, Ohio -- Jahred Boyd, Minnesota -- Steve Gay, Wisconsin -- Rick Noss, Iowa -- Richard Hopkins, Indiana -- Lon Mickelsen, Minnesota -- Steven Preston, Wisconsin -- Connie Sanders, Illinois -- Randy Fleer, Nebraska -- Ken Yliniemi, Minnesota -- Clark Williams, Wisconsin -- Joe Shulka,



Wisconsin -- Todd Ruhter, Nebraska -- Afterword -- Postscript.

Sommario/riassunto

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 move and educate any reader, gay or not, from farm or city.