"A True Love Story..."

Michael & Allen - Delta Junction, Alaska

My partner and I have been in Alaska for 10 years. We own an 80 acre ex-dairy farm that we are trying to resurrect. Since May 2006, we've been building a large (some-call-huge) 2 story house right in the middle of it. We're finally getting siding on this month! We've also begun collecting milk-cows (2 being milked; 2 heifers born this year). We're also raising hogs and one of our sows had her second litter two weeks ago. The goats kept eating my garden - so I insisted they go away this Spring. The farm looks out on the glorious Alaska Range - which is why I bought it -- as well as the White Mountains and the Granite's.

Living here brings us closer to our dream of self-sufficiency. I work as an environmental specialist for the Army. I am also Chief of the Delta Junction Rescue Squad - an unpaid volunteer position that takes up many hours. Allen works for the state during the summer as a Park Ranger and is the true farmer between the two of us.

We're two Southerners who moved here for my job. We were curious how such a small town would greet us, and discovered that everyone knew pretty much everything before we ever got here. Small towns have no secrets even if you want to keep them, which we did not. There was a week of polite but curious gossip and questions -- and then nothing.

Our lives as gay men here have been completely uneventful. In fact, it's more like the movie Big Eden where good-hearted loving people have pushed us to share our lives with them in a way that completely surprised and overwhelmed me. For this reason alone, we are home.

Excerpted from:

Gay in America by Scott Pasfield 
Hardcover: 224 pages 
Publisher: Welcome Books (September 27, 2011) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 1599621045 
ISBN-13: 978-1599621043 
Amazon: Gay in America