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Showing posts with label gay rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gay rights. Show all posts
Friday, September 05, 2025

'Traditional Marriage Parade' divides rural Iowa town

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Photo by Sandy Millar, Unsplash A Baptist pastor of small-town Ottumwa in Iowa challenged the fairness of a city council proclamation to ce...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Leaving the United Methodist Church can be more harmful for churches in rural communities

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Thousands of United Methodist Churches have disaffiliated. (Photo by Sarah Melotte, The Daily Yonder) Amid ongoing debate over sexuality and...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Some in rural N.C. county wanted out of regional library; Pride Month book display apparently prompted debate

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The Yancey County Library in Burnsville, N.C.  (Photo by Sarah Melotte, The Daily Yonder ) In 2013, Tim Mandell of The Rural Blog wrote , ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

LGBTQ+ Eastern Kentuckians are refuting Appalachian stereotype of intolerance, creating a regional community

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Cara Ellis, left , at Pikeville Pride's booth at the Hillbilly Days Festival in Pikeville, Ky. (Photo by Ryan C. Hermens, Herald-Leader)...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Voters expand Medicaid in S.D., reject abortion restriction in Ky., approve recreational marijuana in Mo. and Md.

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Among the many referenda on Tuesday's ballots, Kentucky voters rejected a proposal that would have kept state courts from finding a righ...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Rural queer communities connect via oral history project

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Rae Garringer ( National Geographic photo by Annie Flanagan) Rae Garringer grew up on a sheep farm in West Virginia, but felt isolated as a ...
Friday, August 07, 2020

Quick hits: USDA says don't plant random seeds from China; what rural hospitals can teach their urban peers

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at hea...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Virginia governor signs sweeping gun-control laws

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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed sweeping gun-control measures into law Friday, realizing the fears of many rural constituents. The new...
Friday, November 08, 2019

Retired Vanderbilt dean, now a farmer, lauded for helping the LGBTQ community at the Nashville university

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K. C. Potter K.C. Potter lives on a farm in rural Tennessee these days, but the 80-year-old retired college professor and administrato...
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Friday, August 09, 2019

Quick hits: 'Why I stay in Appalachia,' rural noir fiction increasingly popular, book explores rural political cynicism

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at he...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Quick hits: New poet laureate is first Native American for the post; Pride event at small-town Ky. library draws opposition

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at he...
Monday, June 17, 2019

LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations spring up in rural areas

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Pride parade in Murray, Ky. (WKMS photo by Matt Markgraf) Rural towns across the country are increasingly putting on, or allowing, LGBT...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Quick hits: Cycling helps rural economies; Maine islands get health care by boat; rainbow tailgate goes viral

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at he...
Wednesday, April 03, 2019

What it's like to be LGBTQ in rural U.S. may surprise you

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USA Today map defines 'majority rural' as states in which people in a   majority of counties live in rural areas (click the imag...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Attempted Vatican 'coup' rooted in accuser's setup of pope's meeting with clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses

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Pope Francis and County Clerk Kim Davis (Images from CNN) For an archbishop whose accusations are splitting the Roman Catholic Church ,...
Monday, July 09, 2018

New novel by Silas House, Southernmost, examines religious faith and gay rights in rural America

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Since the 2016 election, journalists have published countless pieces on what makes rural America tick. And so have authors, in the slower c...
Friday, June 08, 2018

Quick hits: the history of hillbilly TV; a photo essay of life in former coal boomtowns; supporting rural LGBTQ seniors

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Hubie Bobo Lane, Chauncey, Ohio (Rich-Joseph Facun photo) Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see sim...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

As rural areas become more conservative and cities more liberal, conflict between them increases

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"The United States is coming to resemble two countries, one rural and one urban," says The Atlantic , over a story by David A. G...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

N.C. leaves transgender bathroom law as it is

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The North Carolina Senate on Wednesday voted down a repeal of the state's controversial transgender bathroom law, Bruce Henderson and J...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Outgoing N.C. governor calls legislative session to repeal of controversial transgender bathroom law

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Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, who in May filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department to save North Carolina's con...