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Yes, some hunters are gay by David Stalling - from High Country News Magazine

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Kd5000:
"Never would have suspected. He liked to hunt and fish.  Really good at dunk huntin."  Heard that a few years back back when a marriage fell apart because her husband was gay.

ptannen, it's sad that some ppl are still that hung up on homosexual sterotypes.  Personally, I like to fish, though I don't have much opportunity. I would think guys like Ennis and Jack would love to hunt and fish as what other recreational opportunities were available for men growing up in WY in that time period. THey certainly weren't readers.  Well, mabye rock-climbing is popular now in WY.

Some hunters are very concerned about the loss of wildlife habitat to new suburban developments, etc. You'd think they'd be embracing of tree-huggers.

 

nakymaton:

--- Quote from: Kd5000 on January 10, 2007, 01:49:32 am ---Some hunters are very concerned about the loss of wildlife habitat to new suburban developments, etc. You'd think they'd be embracing of tree-huggers.

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Speaking as a tree-hugger myself... it's partly the tree-huggers' fault. The environmentalists come to the open spaces as tourists, not as people who live and work in the place, and the tourists have an incredible arrogance that drives locals batty. And the environmentalists demonize hunting, and guns, and trucks, and the work that rural people do outdoors, whether it's logging or ranching or working in the oil fields.

Of course, the rednecks are insular and bigoted and so forth, and they just don't get the importance of predators like mountain lions or wolves or lynx to an ecosystem, but the problems come from both sides. And the environment loses, because the biggest threat to both hunters and hikers is sprawling development, not hunting.

One of the fascinating things about BBM was how it broke down the stereotypes of both rural and gay Americans. Too bad so many people refused to see it.

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