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Country mice (from left) Teija Heikkila, Peggy Barron and Alan Rose
believe the project could help organize a gay and
lesbian community in rural enclaves.
When the twosome made their project pro
posal to the class, Heikkila says, there “was just
silence.”
Since then, the class has become a little
more responsive. Heikkila and Rose have been
approached by a few volunteers to help get the
work done.
During the rest of April and the beginning of
May, the small group will divide the project’s
tasks. By telephone, they’ll ask local churches if
gay and lesbian people are welcomed as full
members in the congregations; they’ll ask busi
nesses if they have anti-discrimination policies
that include sexual orientation; and they’ll ask
school counselors if they know of any enrolled
sexual minority youths and whether there are
resources for them.
They’ll also try to reach queers directly by
distributing the written section of the survey to
as many community-related venues as possible.
Copies of Just Out will be sent up to the two
rural counties as well, and the group will insert
surveys with instructions on how to fill them out
and return them confidentially.
“We’re trying to get a snapshot of what gay
and lesbian life is like here,” Rose explains.
The problem lies in getting queers in the pic
ture at all. The group has printed 200 surveys
and realistically hopes to get 50 back.
Says Heikkila: “I’m sure there are more gays
and lesbians out there, we just need them to fill
out our survey."
All the surveys must be completed and
returned by May 5; the group must present its
results by May 17.
Heikkila and Rose believe the results of the
survey could change the way gay men and les
bians interact in rural areas. For example, after
the duo’s project is completed, they will hold a
queer-only social for those who filled out the
survey.
Heikkila and Rose also believe their survey
might serve as a model for organizing sexual
minorities in other rural parts of the nation.
One of the most important aspects of the
project, Rose says, is that he and Heikkila are
conducting it together.
“We want to set that tone from the start, so
the group we hope to create would be a place
where gay men and lesbians could build a com
munity together," Rose says. “I would be very
disappointed if we found the kind of separatism
that one often finds in urban settings.”
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