Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
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Short impact summary
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest (1998), published by The University of Wisconsin Press, has been cited 26 times. Beyond that, it has been downloaded 9,555 times and is used in teaching.
Full narrative
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest by Will Fellows was published by The University of Wisconsin Press in 1998. Conceptually, the work connects to Geography, Gender studies and Sociology. The book was recognised: Lambda Literary Award Nominee (Gay Men's Studies, 1996).
OpenAlex records 26 citations. Citations peaked in 2012 with 6 citing works. Notable citing venues include Presses universitaires de Rennes eBooks, Journal of Homosexuality and Sexual and Gender Diversity in Social Services. The citing works include 18 journal articles, 5 book chapters and 1 dissertation. They come from 8 countries, led by the United States, Australia and Canada.
In teaching, it is discussed in 1 recorded lecture. It is discussed on Wikipedia (2 mentions). It has been downloaded 9,555 times via OAPEN. A further 2 mentions appear in other attention signals. Its subject matter aligns with Gender equality among the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Crossref Event Data: 6 locally archived records, not a current or complete total. The public API was retired on 23 April 2026.
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Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/HNAL9672
- OA status: Gold
- OA source: DOAB
- OA basis: DOAB record found for this title
- OA evidence chain: DOAB → OAPEN → OpenAlex/Crossref
- OAPEN Library: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64129
- DOAB: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/112246
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- 🏆 Lambda Literary Award Nominee (Gay Men's Studies, 1996)
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- Total: 1
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- Mentioning: 1
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Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of 26 citing works. 50.0% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (2)
- University of Illinois Chicago (2)
- Arizona State University (2)
- Florida State University (1)
- University of New Brunswick (1)
- University of Vermont (1)
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1)
- University of London (1)
- California State University System (1)
- Bahçeşehir University (1)
- University of Wyoming (1)
- MEF University (1)
- California State University, Fullerton (1)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1)
- Queensland University of Technology (1)
- Lake Forest College (1)
- Queen Mary University of London (1)
- South Dakota State University (1)
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (1)
- University of Winchester (1)
- Loyola University Chicago (1)
- Concordia University Chicago (1)
- La Trobe University (1)
- University of Wollongong (1)
- Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (1)
- College of DuPage (1)
- University of New England (1)
- University of Illinois System (1)
- Ecole d'Ingénieurs de PURPAN (1)
- Université de Toulouse (1)
- Morehead State University (1)
- University of Manitoba (1)
- Brandon University (1)
- Universidade Federal do Paraná (1)
- Missouri Western State University (1)
- Carleton University (1)
- Tennessee State University (1)
- Columbia University (1)
- The Chicago School (1)
- University of New England (1)
- Isaac "Ike" Sohn Leslie (2)
- Gizem Öztemür (1)
- Meredith Redlin (1)
- Jesús Ramírez-Valles (1)
- Viktor Chvatík (1)
- Linda M. Sever (1)
- Dennis M. Emano (1)
- Gordon Waitt (1)
- Frank D. Fincham (1)
- Shaun Michael Pichler (1)
- Christine Guionnet (1)
- Jack Hardwicke (1)
- Gail M. Leedy (1)
- Kimberly Landini (1)
- Gemma Marr (1)
- Dalia I. García (1)
- Christopher Reed (1)
- Eric Anderson (1)
- Jennifer A. Gray (1)
- Walter T. Boulden (1)
- Eric Swank (1)
- Jaclyn Wypler (1)
- Keith V. Bletzer (1)
- Catherine MacPhail (1)
- John Scott (1)
- David M. Frost (1)
- Michael Parrie (1)
- Andrew Gorman‐Murray (1)
- Eric S. Mankowski (1)
- Alexis Annes (1)
- Jill E. Anderson (1)
- Ezgi Toplu‐Demirtaş (1)
- Else R. P. Vieira (1)
- Rachel Herron (1)
- Jonathan A. Allan (1)
- Breanne Fahs (1)
- Kerstin Stieber Roger (1)
- Dane Rivas‐Koehl (1)
- Candice M. Waddell-Henowitch (1)
- Michael Mayerfeld Bell (1)
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Open Peer Review PRISM
- Status: No explicit PRISM review record returned
- Interpretation: neutral signal — this does not mean the book had no peer review; only that PRISM returned no explicit title-level review metadata.
- Publisher context: The University of Wisconsin Press
Online mentions & public discourse Open Web
Community platforms and curated expert sources (newsletters, blogs, podcasts), plus 6 locally archived Crossref events (the public API was retired 23 Apr 2026 — historical coverage only).
- A Vermont Production of ‘Farm Boys’ Explores Gay Rural Life 07/09/2014 · Seven Days Vermont
Community engagement
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Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption
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- Will Fellows First Corresponding
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Citations OpenAlex
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Outness and mental health outcomes for LGBTQ+ farmers | The Journal of LGBTQ+ Mental Health | 10.1080/30678935.2026.2651951 |
| 2025 | Burdens of Masculinity Among Heterosexual, Gay, and Bisexual Men in Turkey: More Masculine, More Conflicted, Less Satisfied | Gender Issues | 10.1007/s12147-025-09384-6 |
| 2022 | “pack in. pack out. and pack your heels hunni”: Ecodrag and Ecoqueer Instagram | Media+Environment | 10.1525/001c.37272 |
| 2022 | Diversidade de gênero e educação nas áreas rurais do Brasil | Cadernos Pagu | 10.1590/18094449202200640004 |
| 2022 | The Bucolic, the Backwoods, and the In-Between: Navigating Desire in Atlantic Canadian Literature | Carleton University's Institutional Repository (MacOdrum Library, Carleton University) | 10.22215/etd/2022-15334 |
| 2021 | Inclusive masculinity and Czechia youth | International Sociology | 10.1177/02685809211046599 |
| 2020 | Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development | 10.5304/jafscd.2020.093.036 | |
| 2019 | Language use before and after Stonewall: A corpus-based study of gay men’s pre-Stonewall narratives | Discourse Studies | 10.1177/1461445619887541 |
| 2019 | Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming | Society & Natural Resources | 10.1080/08941920.2019.1610626 |
| 2018 | Are rural Prairie masculinities hegemonic masculinities? | NORMA | 10.1080/18902138.2018.1519092 |
| 2017 | Queer Farmers: Sexuality and the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture | Rural Sociology | 10.1111/ruso.12153 |
| 2015 | Desire, belonging and absence in rural places | Rural Society | 10.1080/10371656.2015.1099263 |
| 2014 | Negotiating Gay Male Christian Identities | Unknown | 10.1007/978-94-017-8718-5_3 |
| 2012 | Rural location and exposure to minority stress among sexual minorities in the United States | Psychology and Sexuality | 10.1080/19419899.2012.700026 |
| 2012 | The Careful Balance of Gender and Sexuality: Rural Gay Men, the Heterosexual Matrix, and “Effeminophobia” | Journal of Homosexuality | 10.1080/00918369.2012.648881 |
| 2012 | Introduction. Pourquoi réfléchir aux coûts de la domination masculine ? | Presses universitaires de Rennes eBooks | 10.4000/books.pur.67080 |
| 2012 | Les limites du « rôle de sexe masculin » | Presses universitaires de Rennes eBooks | 10.4000/books.pur.67104 |
| 2012 | Opprimés et oppresseurs ? Le mauvais traitement systématique des hommes | Presses universitaires de Rennes eBooks | 10.4000/books.pur.67128 |
| 2012 | Une psychologie communautaire des hommes et de la masculinité : revue de littérature historique et conceptuelle | Presses universitaires de Rennes eBooks | 10.4000/books.pur.67116 |
| 2011 | “It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home | Antipode | 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00876.x |
| 2009 | Hirschfeld to Hooker to Herek to High Schools: A Study of the History and Development of GLBT Empirical Research, Institutional Policies, and the Relationship Between the Two | Journal of Homosexuality | 10.1080/00918360903187861 |
| 2008 | “The Priest Obviously Doesn't Know That I'm Gay”: The Religious and Spiritual Journeys of Latino Gay Men | Journal of Homosexuality | 10.1080/00918360802345149 |
| 2007 | Out in the Cowboy State | Sexual and Gender Diversity in Social Services | 10.1300/j041v19n01_02 |
| 2003 | We're from Oz: Marking Ethnic and Sexual Identity in Chicago | Environment and Planning D Society and Space | 10.1068/d372 |
| 2003 | Risk and Danger among Women‐Who‐Prostitute in Areas where Farmworkers Predominate | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 10.1525/maq.2003.17.2.251 |
| 2001 | Gay Men Living in a Rural Environment | Sexual and Gender Diversity in Social Services | 10.1300/j041v12n03_05 |
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