If you’re queer and grew up in a rural community I need you’re help!!
Our community is facing so much censorship and violence. I want my exhibition to share the untold story of the LGBTQ+ community that grew up in rural areas. Please share anything you feel comfortable sharing! If you don’t like google forms, please DM me I can just send you the questions!
I’m pansexual and nonbinary, and grew up in a small town of only 3,000 people. This project means so much to me!
A part of me wants to come home, come back to the quiet boredom of Pennsylvanian hills and fields. I want to go home to the trails and the mountains and the rocks and the deer and the abandoned homes and old bridges.
But my brother reminded me what I risk in coming back, or at least coming back permanently. People are not always kind to my kind.
The area has grown, but there is always the one waiting, watching. Some are presented with facts and truth and find holes like it's a game. But that game is a gambling game, and I'm gambling my life.
No, I don't think I could ever come home. At least, not the way I'd like.
Gay redneck culture is refusing to learn anything about your favorite country artists because they’re probably homophobic but you just want to enjoy their songs T-T
Im at the Zach Bryan concert in Los Angeles rn (hes one of my favorite artists atm and his music helped me get thru a really hard point in my life last year)
And
Theres so many white peoeple
With
With
Fake tans and cowboy hats and beer shirts
I feel like how the barbies mustve felt infiltrating the kendom land
Featuring my hat (im not attracted to women get it haha)
Ok resharing this because I've recently discovered the tag "yallternative" and I want these bops to reach more of your lovely queer country ears.
After watching Wynonna Earp and seeing queer country folx on screen thriving in my own hostile conservative province, it left me to reflect and start reclaiming things from my own rural upbringing, mainly the music that was such a lifeline to my young self. So in an excited late night rabbit hole I started a playlist of queer as well as poc artists who sing folk, blue grass, but mostly country music.
Named after the Martina McBride song This One's For The Girls because the sense of solidarity it always stirred in me, and of course my love for a play on words. It is ever growing, as well as open to recommendations and constructive feedback.
Ps. I am working on getting it on YouTube as well as other platforms, lmk if there's anywhere specific you'd like to listen on
no offence but the reason tumblr is “dying” is, well, yes, of course the cursed like/reblog ratio and the change in user behaviour (because of people being used to how instagram and tiktok work) BUT also the lack of weekly shows. i say it with my whole chest, they don't produce captivating and engaging stupid weekly tv shows anymore because streaming killed that so you have spikes of activity here when Something happens in general fandom or up to three days after a new season of whatever drops and then it's a wasteland. this is obviously an old woman yelling at a cloud missing supernatural and the vampire diaries and pretty little liars and all these other shows type of post but honestly give me back weekly tv shows where i have something to watch for 40 minutes almost every day of the week after work so then i can read and reblog it on tumblr give it back for the sake of my sanity