Non-Profits & Organizations
Country Queers - “a multimedia oral history project documenting the diverse experiences of rural and small town LGBTQIA folks in the USA.”
Cultivating Change Foundation - “Valuing and elevating LGBT agriculturists through advocacy, education, and community.”
Equality USDA - “The employee resource group for USDA's LGBT+ employees and retirees.”
Fierté Agricole - “mission to encourage a better knowledge of the rural and agricultural LGBT+ communities’ reality and to ease social integration of people with diverse genders and sexual orientations who share an interest in agriculture.”
Idyll Dandy Arts - “Idyll Dandy Arts (or just Ida) is a Southern, rural community land project and education space tucked into the hills of Middle Tennessee. The mostly wooded hollow provided space for a gaggle of queer, trans and gender non-conforming residents and our neighbors, friends and visitors.”
Lesbian Natural Resources - “Our purpose is to assist Lesbians in obtaining and maintaining community land, in developing rural skills and self-sufficiency, and in community development for Lesbians of many different abilities, ages, races, classes, and economic backgrounds. Our intention is to support the growth of Lesbian communities which are actively creating Lesbian culture, preserving land-based life skills and rural ecosystems, and discovering non-oppressive ways to live and work together.”
Not Our Farm - “Not Our Farm (NOF) is a project and community of farmers who have chosen farming as a career but do not have their own farm business or land.”
Out in the Open - “Building rural LGBTQ+ community, visibility, knowledge, & power.”
The Quinta Project - “The Quinta Project will establish a “queer community centre” on a farm, with a program of events celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in all its diversity – and a mission of promoting ecological, sustainable and socially inclusive practices.”
Books
Memoir
Hit by a Farm and Sheepish by Catherine Friend
Prairie Silence by Melanie Hoffert
The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Changing Seasons by David Mas Masumoto with Nikiko Masumoto
Happy Farmers by Shelia Wenham
Cold Antler Farm by Jenna Woginrich
Collections
Lesbian Land edited by Joyce Cheney
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest by Will Fellows
Garden Variety Dykes edited by Irene Reti and Valerie Jean Chase
Fiction
Deliver Us From Evie by M.E. Kerr
Windrow Garden by Janet McClellan
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
Films
God’s Own Country (2017): “A young farmer numbs his frustrations with drinking and casual sex until a Romanian migrant worker sets him on a new path.”
Landline (2017): “a short documentary about the only helpline in the UK for gay farmers. Through a series of recorded telephone conversations and reconstructive visuals, the film uses the helpline as a lens through which to view the experiences of LGBTQ people in the British farming community.”
Fair Haven (2016): “A young man returns to his family farm, after a long stay in ex-gay conversion therapy, and is torn between the exceptions of his emotionally distant father, and the memories of a past, loving relationship he has tried to bury”
Summertime (2015): “In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm, the two find that lesbianism and feminism are not as accepted in the countryside.”
Out Here (2013): “Out Here is a full-length documentary film created by the Queer Farmer Film Project. Completed after 4 years in production, it looks at the experiences of queer farmers across the country and asks – what does it mean to be a queer farmer, is agriculture a safe space for queer people, and what are the relationships between food production and queerness?”
Brokeback Mountain (2005): “In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart, Alma, and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, the two men keep up their tortured and sporadic affair over the course of 20 years.”
