My favorite show when I was growing up was The Waltons’. A farm boy listening to show tunes? My parents must have seen it coming.”Joe Shulka, Wisconsin I was always interested in a lot of the traditional queen thingsclothes, cooking, academics, music, theater. If there is a checklist to see if your kid is queer, I must have hit every one of themall sorts of big warning signs. I would be shunned.”Martin Scherz, Nebraska It’s not the kind of place that would welcome me if I lived openly, the way that I would like to live. I get homesick a lot, but I don’t know if I could ever go back there and live. It makes me want to go out into a field and take my shoes off and put my feet right on the dirt, establish a real physical connection with that place. When I go back home, I feel a real connection with the landa tremendous feeling, spiritual in a way. I just stood there, watching him, wondering if he knew why.”Henry Bauer, Minnesota I couldn’t even talk to him, couldn’t think of anything to say. This is when I was really getting horny to do something with another guy. When I was fifteen, the milkman who came to get our milk was beautiful. Whether painful, funny, or matter-of-fact, these plain-spoken accounts will move and educate any reader, gay or not, from farm or city.
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. Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life.
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