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Gay farmers go naked to help raise awareness of mental health
ABC ^ | 10th July 2018 | Nathan Morris

Posted on 07/11/2018 5:10:02 PM PDT by Ennis85

When The Naked Farmer came to town looking for people to get their kit off for a good cause, dairy farmer Kerry Wilson was approached to take part.

He and his partner Paul Wilson agreed, though Kerry had reservations about not having the right body type.

"Gee whiz, I'm 56. Does it matter?" Kerry asked. It didn't.

The cause, which raises awareness about the mental health of Australian farmers, hit a personal chord with the couple.

Kerry and Paul are fifth-generation farmers who live and work together near Nimbin in the northern rivers of New South Wales.

"You carry a lot of guilt thereafter and even before, the 35 years before that when you know that something's not quite right in your head, but you can't quite work it out. Or you're not quite game to go and work through it with anybody.

"So we've have our fair share of ups and downs and the agricultural industry is a tough gig."

Kerry said coming out in the dairy industry was particularly tough.

"Oh, it was horrible," he said.

"At one stage we thought, OK, we'll just go to Brisbane and start a new life in the city, an anonymous life. But it was a fleeting thought. It wasn't an option because I had three sons."

At the time the kids were aged nine, six and four.

"And they by default had to come on the journey with us," Kerry said.

With the support of Kerry's former wife, life kept rolling on.

"I don't remember ever sitting around with my head in my hands going, 'Oh God, what are we going to do?'" Paul said.

And, Kerry said, "we weren't the only gays in the village"

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: farmers; fdrq; gay; homosexual; homosexualagenda; ibtz; lgbt; mentalhealth; mentalillness; mentallyill; nothanks; poofters; sodomites; tmi; wtmi
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1 posted on 07/11/2018 5:10:02 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Better yet...just don’t click on the damn link


2 posted on 07/11/2018 5:10:48 PM PDT by longsufferingjetsfan
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To: Ennis85

You can already harvest the irony in that headline.


3 posted on 07/11/2018 5:11:27 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Ennis85

Uh, no thanks.


4 posted on 07/11/2018 5:11:39 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: Ennis85

Lends new meaning to “Faggotry down under”.


5 posted on 07/11/2018 5:11:40 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Ennis85

Are the gay farmers pooping on the romaine? Oops.....


6 posted on 07/11/2018 5:11:44 PM PDT by LouisianaJoanof Arc (#I'mWithHim #MAGA)
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To: Ennis85

Oh, disgusting.


7 posted on 07/11/2018 5:13:04 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Ennis85

I was already aware that they are mentally ill.


8 posted on 07/11/2018 5:14:08 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: Ennis85

Must be what “butt cheese” means.


9 posted on 07/11/2018 5:15:16 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: Blueflag; Ennis85

jokes write themselves.....


10 posted on 07/11/2018 5:15:35 PM PDT by 4Liberty (illegal immigration is a "process" crime too....)
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To: Ennis85
Hey, that is some scythe you have there pal.


11 posted on 07/11/2018 5:15:44 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: drive illegally, you lose your license, here illegally, they give you one.)
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To: Blueflag

Liberals are irony-deficient.


12 posted on 07/11/2018 5:15:49 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Ennis85

Now the Farmer’s daughter is a lesbo?


13 posted on 07/11/2018 5:15:53 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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To: Ennis85
If you've got a cause, please don't take off your clothes.

That's the quickest way to get me to ignore you.

Look at those Leftist "bow wows" that try to shock everyone with their nude or scantily clad bodies.

GAK252

If they do that, don't expect me to hang around. And old men, aww cut me some slack folks. Spare me.

14 posted on 07/11/2018 5:16:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Take a look out there folks. Can you see evidence of a Left Wing Hate Group, perhaps fascist too?)
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To: Blueflag

awareness of mental illness....


Yep. Now we are aware.

Remember the medical DSM volumes had always classified homosexuality as mental illness. In the early 1970s a liberal pressure group within the association caused others to cave in and agree to take the classification out. It still means they are crazy but no longer officially sanctioned as such in DSM.


15 posted on 07/11/2018 5:17:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Ennis85

Yeah that’s normal.


16 posted on 07/11/2018 5:17:45 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Ennis85

ABC shops for ways to make us think queers are normal.

No thanks and those sheep and cows need to beware


17 posted on 07/11/2018 5:17:49 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Ennis85

That’ll do it, I reckon...


18 posted on 07/11/2018 5:18:05 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Disambiguator

They are and that takes some of the fun out of it. Still funny though, even your bad pun ;^).


19 posted on 07/11/2018 5:19:35 PM PDT by stevio (MAGA)
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To: Blueflag
Gay farmers go naked to help raise awareness of mental health

Or lack thereof.

20 posted on 07/11/2018 5:20:00 PM PDT by NutsOnYew
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