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This rural matchmaking service helps gay farmers find love
Don’t be thrown by the name, “The Farmer Wants A Wife” matches single country folk of all orientations–men seeking men, men seeking women, women seeking women, and everything in between.
The dating service launched in Ireland just last year and has already proven to be a huge success. It may soon be expanding across the U.K.
The concept is the brainchild of professional matchmaker Mairead Loughman, who tells Farmers Guardian, “After years of matchmaking I realized the main reason people are...
This gay farmer ‘couldn’t stop crying’ when marriage equality was made legal in Australia
This dairy farmer had an emotional response to the announcement of marriage equality in Australia.
As Jason Smith milked his cow, he listened live to the marriage equality bill passing in Parliament on his headphones.
He was so overwhelmed with emotion about the results that he said he “couldn’t stop crying”.
Speaking to The Standard, a local newspaper in south-west Australia, he said: “I just got this feeling of being equal and being okay and having the rest of the country accept...
An Australian Farmer Came Out To His Family On TV And It Was Pretty...
We're not crying, you're crying.
A farmer came out to his family this week on the Australian TV show This Time Next Year, and it’s got us a bit misty.
The show profiles Australians looking to make a big change in the next 365 days, and follow ups with them at the end of the year. Brad Purdy, 36, went on the show with the goal of finding a partner.
But he knew to do that he’d have to come out to...
New gay farmer film heralded as ‘better than Brokeback Mountain’
Gay love story God’s Own Country is being heralded as ‘better than Brokeback Mountain’.
As you can see in the trailer below, the film follows Johnny, an angry, lonely young man relying on alcohol and casual sex, who lives on a farm in North England with his father and grandmother.
His life changes when Gheorghe, a Romanian migrant, is hired to work on the farm for the season.
As the two spend time together, an intense relationship develops on a backdrop of...
This homophobic farmer has been banned from selling his fruit
A farmer from Michigan is suing the city of East Lansing, Michigan after he was banned from selling produce in a farmer’s market because of a homophobic Facebook post.
Stephen Tennes is a farmer on the outskirts of East Lansing and also rents his land out for weddings.
His farm quickly became a popular location for the joyous celebrations, but in December the farmer announced that he would only permit heterosexual marriages on his premises.
Writing on Facebook, Tennes said that he...
