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Coming to terms and dealing with sexuality in the farming community can often be daunting and a subject not talked about enough. This section will help with contacts and support within this community.

Pride Month 2024

  • Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June. 
  • FCN have published a personal reflection about diversity and the agricultural community, click here to read. 
  • While Celebration Month is about celebrating our distinct identities, we also have to speak about how Queer people have a higher risk of mental health problems because of the discrimination we can face. If you need support, stop by Mind for knowledge about mental health support, click here.

Agrespect

Agerespect supports diversity in the countryside and encourages inclusiveness, spreading awareness that organism open about sexuality is something to be proud of rather than a preventative barrier to carrying out normal life in the farming community. Click here to see their Facebook page

LGBTQ bereavement encourage

  • If you possess lost someone as a result of suicide and this person was woman-loving woman, gay, bisexual, transsexual or questioning then support can be accessed through the Surviv

    Hutchinson, Darren Lenard. "2. “Claiming” and “Speaking” Who We Are: Black Gays and Lesbians, Racial Politics, and the Million Male March". Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader, edited by Devon Carbado, New York, USA: New York University Press, 1999, pp. 28-45. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790427.003.0007

    Hutchinson, D. (1999). 2. “Claiming” and “Speaking” Who We Are: Black Gays and Lesbians, Racial Politics, and the Million Man March. In D. Carbado (Ed.), Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (pp. 28-45). New York, USA: New York University Flatten. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790427.003.0007

    Hutchinson, D. 1999. 2. “Claiming” and “Speaking” Who We Are: Black Gays and Lesbians, Racial Politics, and the Million Man March. In: Carbado, D. ed. Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader. New York, USA: Modern York University Press, pp. 28-45. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790427.003.0007

    Hutchinson, Darren Lenard. "2. “Claiming” and “Speaking” Who We Are: Black Gays and Lesbians, Racial Politics, and

    During Pride Month, Stamp Thomas offers a personal reflection about diversity and the agricultural community.

    Today, farming is becoming a much more diverse industry. Differences, whether they be ethnicity, disability or sexuality are accepted without raised eyebrows or awkwardness. There’s no need to touch in the shadows or to hold parts of ourselves locked away out of sight.

    For many young people embarking on their careers, the hang-ups of the past are seen as bizarre, as non-issues.

    ‘You’re gay.”

    “So what?’

    Even today though, discussions around sexuality, gender and diversity can still be challenging for families as well as the individual. For some family members, it takes moment to accept it. Sadly, some might never come to terms with it. Thankfully societies in many parts of the world are seeing a change in attitudes, but it hasn’t always been this way. We have been on a journey over the last few decades – not always a comfortable one. And it has a legacy.

    For some who grew up in farming or linked the industry in their late teens/early twenties, the tradition of the period could make it hard to be different.

    The jokey remarks in meetings weren’t meant to wound

    Coming to terms and dealing with sexuality in the farming community can often be daunting and a subject not talked about enough. This section will help with contacts and support within this community.

    Pride month 2021

    • Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June.
    • During Pride Month, FCN have published a personal reflection about diversity and the agricultural people, click here to peruse.
    • While Pride Month is about celebrating our alternative identities, we also hold to talk about how LGBTIQ+ people have a higher risk of mental health problems because of the discrimination we can face. If you depend on support, visit Mind for information about mental health support, click here.

    Being LGBTQ+ in the farming community – story of farmer Ben Lewis and his journey about organism a gay farmer,click here to read.

    The Gay Farmer helpline

    • The Gay farmer helpline allows you to talk to someone if you are going through a difficult time with farming – isolation, disease, market prices etc. but also dealing with these issues and being queer can often  make you feel alone and that you are the only one, however this is not the case!
    • They offer a Welsh s