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'Staying Bush'. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 460
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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