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This study explored the experience of what it is tobe a gay man and to live in a rural community. Thefindings of this study show that these men were able to live in rural locations by effectively employing a diverse range of strategies to both combat the difficulties of rural life and to enhance its advantages. The bush was the place in which these men could find themselves, be themselves and also find others like themselves. This book documentsa largely unreported aptitude and adeptness by ruralgay men to live contented lives in rural areas. Itsuggests that their close affinity with place givesthem a sense of belonging. It also suggests thatthese men had the capacity for agency - theindividual's ability to exert autonomy over hislife - that drove their determination to control andimprove their own lives and live them the way theychose. This is a perspective that has been untold in previous narratives of rural gay men. That gay men can live fulfilled lives in the very places theyare too often said to have fled evokes an innovative understanding of what it is to be gay in the bush.
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This study explored the experience of what it is to
be a gay man and to live in a rural community. The
findings of this study show that these men were
able to live in rural locations by effectively
employing a diverse range of strategies to both
combat the difficulties of rural life and to enhance
its advantages. The bush was the place in which
these men could find themselves, be themselves and
also find others like themselves. This book documents
a largely unreported aptitude and adeptness by rural
gay men to live contented lives in rural areas. It
suggests that their close affinity with place gives
them a sense of belonging. It also suggests that
these men had the capacity for agency - the
individual''s ability to exert autonomy over his
life - that drove their determination to control and
improve their own lives and live them the way they
chose. This is a perspective that has been untold in
previous narratives of rural gay men. That gay men
can live fulfilled lives in the very places they are
too often said to have fled evokes an innovative
understanding of what it is to be gay in the bush.
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Green Ed ED GREEN was awarded a PhD from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Ed is widely published and has given papers at national and international conferences. In 2008,Ed was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Universitas GadjahMada in Indonesia to conduct research into rural gay men and theimplications for HIV education programs.
