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About Agrespect

We believe that people live their best lives when they live authentically. There are thousands of LGBTQ+ people in the countryside. We want to unite them, celebrate them and encourage inclusiveness in rural communities. We want to promote the countryside as a vibrant, tolerant and welcoming place for everyone irrespective of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Our aims are simple: We want to help LGBTQ+ people and their families to understand that being different is something to be proud of. Being open about your sexuality shouldn’t be a barrier to leading a happy life and a fulfilling career in the countryside. We are doing this by celebrating LGBTQ+ people’s stories here on the site and on social media.

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Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Stuart Chutter’s story

I am a Canadian farmer and one of likely many rural guys who have believed for too long that it’s…

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Caribbean flower farmer, Miles Whitfield, tells his coming out story

Like millions of gay children, from my earliest memories I just knew I was somehow different from other children. I…

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Being LGBTQ+ in agriculture: Will Vaughan-France’s story

Somethings in life are obvious, others are less so, writes Will Vaughan-France, farmer and Bayer technical manager… Growing up on…

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Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Stephanie Crowe’s story

It took twenty-five years and a Tinder session in Rome for me to tell the world that I am queer…

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Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Stuart Chutter’s story

I’m a Canadian farmer and one of likely many rural guys who have believed for too long that it’s not…

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Being transgender in farming: Dee Vickers’ story

Working in arboriculture and forestry isn’t perhaps the natural environment to come out as transgender. But Dee Vickers, director of…

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Ethnic diversity in UK farming: Partheeban Navaratnam’s story

Farm vet Partheeban Navaratna explains the challenges faced by people of colour working in agriculture, and the value diversity can…

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Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Ryan Came-Johnson’s story

‘Those who matter don’t care, and those who care don’t matter’, writes sheep farmer and agronomist, Ryan Came-Johnson, writes… Growing…

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Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Ben Lewis’s story

Ben Lewis, a farmer and manager for Rural Payments in Wales, writes: I was born into the umpteenth generation of…

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Being LGBTQ+ in agriculture: Emlyn Evans’ story

Emlyn Evans is a volunteer at Gay Farmers Helpline. He grew up in a small rural market village in West…

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Being LGBTQ+ in farming: Sam Cooper’s story

As much as I loved my childhood and growing up in the countryside, it wasn’t exactly an environment teeming with…

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Diversity in agriculture: Matt Naylor on being a gay farmer

We are thrilled to team up with Agrespect to share and celebrate LGBTQ+ people’s stories who live and work in…