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Gay in the Heartland

Weekend Edition Saturday, April 9, 2005 · Reporter Sarah Neal brings us a portrait of being gay in rural America through the eyes of her mother and her friends. Neal's mother is gay and lives in a region of the country known to locals as "Kentuckiana" along the Kentucky-Indiana border.

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Vanessa, who listens to WNYC in New York.

"My husband and I both fell silent at lunch while listening to [this] story. The bravery of just existing in a place where the reactions of your neighbors to you and to the people you love are at least complex and at worst threatening. I never imagined a song so seemingly benign as 'My Old Kentucky Home' could mean so much."

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