Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
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an interesting collection of memoirs from America's heartland
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| I was curious to read Farm Boys after hearing that Ang Lee had given Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal copies of it before filming Brokeback Mountain. And I certainly respect William Fellows and all the contributors for creating a truly unique work, an honest overview of how life was for many gay American men living in the rural midwest. This book relies heavily on the personal memoirs of a couple dozen gay men looking back on their upbringing on the farm. Because so much of it comes from individual, anecdotal accounts with only a few short chapters of analysis by Mr. Fellows, I didn't feel like I actually learned that much about the overall trends and historical changes in rural gay life. I realize that William Fellows had to make due with the scant information he had (Fellows advertised for contributors to his project, and just over 100 gay men from midwest farms responded), and that would have made sweeping generalizations or hard demographical data pretty much impossible to reliably create. But I did enjoy reading these stories, and I recommend it to anyone, gay or straight, who is interested in getting a better sense of what life was really like for regular Americans living in rural America in the middle of the century. |
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