NY Gay Pride Weekend

[KristyHall]

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I'll second this sentiment.
I just stumbled across this thread. Never expected to see this on my favorite chicken forum. What great people from all walks of life.

My partner of 25 years are looking forward to the day when we can be each others husband.

Thanks for the very rewarding read...

It is great that LGBT people who have families, and chickens or other poultry have a great place to go to share their enthusiasm about their birds and a safe place for their children to go and learn about animals and the many different people who own them.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

WOW 17 pages of discussion on a thread with the "G" word in it. Good job moderators for keeping things civil!

ALSO, In an anticipated move to the country, I'm curious if anyone has any personal recommendations for rural areas that you have found to be gay friendly, or at least not aggressively anti-gay. Maybe I should start a new thread, but since a nice group of folks have joined in here I thought I'd ask.

 

[Dunkopf]

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I hear the Amish are cool with it.

Good luck on that one. Most rural areas are about 80% hard core conservative. I'd try the east or west coast rural communities.

 

[KristyHall]

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north Alabama. We are a very rural area but close enough to the international hub Huntsville that a lot of diverse people live in the rural areas where land is cheap. I live about 30 minutes from south Huntsville and a lot of people from all over the world have moved into our little communities so they can raise their animals and still be within driving distance of Huntsville where we have NASA and a large military base for work.

Their are ignorant people and KKK but they are universally loathed among most of the people I know and are in a minority.

The local head of the KKK lives down the road from me and he knows if he comes near my property he's in big trouble. Same with my neighbors. we have no love for the man and he stays surprisingly low key because of it.

Unfortunately you will find KKK and neo nazis anywhere you go.

 

[KristyHall]

oh yes and there is a large number of Native Americans and Mennonites around here and in south Tennessee there are the Amish. The Amish and Mennonites are very accepting and kind people. Or at least in my experience with them.

 

[Urban Chaos]

Bastrop county, texas.

You've got an rural area, outside of Austin with lots of folk from all spectrums of the cultural rainbow. Little far from PA, but the growing season is long!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

I live a few miles south of Provincetown, MA. Extremely colorful town, and fun. People can finally just be themselves there. It's nice. And by the way, that town has the most beautiful and loved pet dogs in the world.

 

[KristyHall]

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oohhh yeah. Here in the south, it gets hot but you can let your animals graze about ten months out of the year without having to supplemental them, on good pasture land. Love the long growing season. If done right you can get three harvests of corn too

 

[Ken F]

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I moved from Center City Philadelphia to the Lehigh Valley and have found it to be very welcoming. My property is rural but I am very close to Allentown and Bethlehem and have all the amenities that I loved and took for granted in the city.

Now I have to drive everywhere I want to go (the hardest thing to get used to, for me) but I have 3 acres of beautiful property where my chickens can roam freely and I can grow everything imaginable.

I was a die-hard urbanite until I began spending weekends in the country. Now I can't imagine going back.

Given how small Philadelphia can be, I bet we know some of the same people.

Ken

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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I moved from Center City Philadelphia to the Lehigh Valley and have found it to be very welcoming. My property is rural but I am very close to Allentown and Bethlehem and have all the amenities that I loved and took for granted in the city.

Now I have to drive everywhere I want to go (the hardest thing to get used to, for me) but I have 3 acres of beautiful property where my chickens can roam freely and I can grow everything imaginable.

I was a die-hard urbanite until I began spending weekends in the country. Now I can't imagine going back.

Given how small Philadelphia can be, I bet we know some of the same people.

Ken

I think we've met Ken, and I certainly used to shop in your stores! Glad the country is working out for you. I'm itching to flee the city too! Maybe we'll end up neighbors someday.