{"id":1399,"date":"2025-09-27T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:15:11","slug":"the-struggles-of-a-former-country-bumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2025\/09\/27\/the-struggles-of-a-former-country-bumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Struggles of a Former Country Bumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In \u201cLosing Home\u201d by Eli Clare, he mentions how the difficulties of leaving his so called \u2018home\u2019 caused some major complications that go beyond his identity. At first, he shows great appreciation towards the exposure of queer communities in the city which he has some flaws with it. He finds issues with queer\u00a0organizations and support groups that advocate for gay and lesbian rights in cities. He says, \u201c&#8230;leaving our roots to live in cities; living fearful invisible lives in our rural communities&#8230;\u201d (Clare 44), which insulates how someone of his background had two options which generally presented themselves as the worst internal outcomes. It\u00a0brings some questions if these queer organizations ignore these parts of society because of \u201c&#8230;straight rural people, the same folks urban people call rednecks, hicks, clods, and bigots&#8230;\u201d (Clare 44), which are usually ignored because they tend to hold conservative views of\u00a0queer individuals.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0However, there is the possibility that these queer organizations, mostly individuals, likely are afraid of confronting an unknown territory or ignore due to the negative perception of these isolated\u00a0places. There are a lot of assumptions that these small-town\u00a0individuals should move into the city to create \u201c&#8230;queer visibility and acceptance by building community among queer people&#8230;\u201d (Clare 44), which is normally not possible in rural areas for queers. In addition, these organizations direct\u00a0their attention to the naturally progressive cities because there are a lot of working class to upper class individuals. Stuff like \u201c&#8230;unemployment, inadequate food and housing, unaffordable and inaccessible health care and education&#8230;\u201d (Clare 44) are the norm for rural areas, showing how closeted individuals continue to be a challenge to a narrow-minded community.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For that reason, this reading expresses similar topics regarding\u00a0the complications of coming out in a small town to this Japanese manga. It received an adaptation called, \u201cThe Summer Hikaru Died\u201d on Netflix. The main character of this show goes through the struggles of hiding his identity from this small town as well as dealing with the loss of his first crush, and this entity who takes the form of his dead crush.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cLosing Home\u201d by Eli Clare, he mentions how the difficulties of leaving his so called \u2018home\u2019 caused some major complications that go beyond his identity. At first, he shows great appreciation towards the exposure of queer communities in the city which he has some flaws with it. He finds issues with queer\u00a0organizations and support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2025\/09\/27\/the-struggles-of-a-former-country-bumpkin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Struggles of a Former Country Bumpkin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}