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...where homosexual men and women can gather and find safety in numbers. But civil rights activism has led many to reveal their existence in the countryside, hoping to change the minds of their neighbors and bring the movement home. That also involves tremendous risks. Says Rod Harrington, a gay farmer in northwest Missouri: "The idea in rural America is that gays and lesbians exist -- we just don't want to know about them." And while the grass-roots strategy may win friends and influence neighbors, it can also bring about taunts, threats and injury -- if not worse...
...They'll be back. So will Karen Harris, who "wanted to see what all the ruckus was about" and motored in from Wiggins, Colorado, 65 miles away. "Besides," says her husband Craig, "there's nothing to do in Wiggins." Maybe things are quiet in Chadron, Nebraska, too: a farmer there is a regular long-distance commuter to Mile High. After eight hours a day of riding atop his tractor, a Rockies executive heard the farmer say, five hours in his Cadillac feels like a breeze...
...submerged under inches of water -- and the entire planting season may be ruined if the fall freeze comes early or even on time. Bob Plathe, who farms 800 acres of soybean and corn in Lu Verne, Iowa, echoes the region's lament. "There aren't a lot of farmers around anymore who can take a hit like this and survive. It's pretty hard for a third-generation farmer to lose his grandpa's farm...
...Farmer, who spends about six months a year working at a clinic in rural Haiti, said he is interested in "the ways in which poor people are put a risk for infectious disease...
...Farmer said he plans to use the money to start the Institute for Health and Social Justice, to "help other people who are working more invisibly among the poor...