What if you love your place, but your place, or rather, the fellow inhabitants of your place, object to honest expressions of LGBTQ identity? Perhaps you grew up in a rural area, learned to garden, to savor the quiet, the wooded hillsides, the spring wildflowers, the grazing livestock in the fields, but can only enjoy the companionship of other queer folks by driving an hour or two to the nearest gay bar? Perhaps you still live in the same place where you were raised, a small town set amid a scenic convergence of mountains and rivers, but you know that being honest about your same-sex attraction would make you the object of jokes, gossip, threats or even violence.11

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山区的不适应：阿巴拉契亚群岛环境与LGBTQIA身份之间的紧张关系

如果您爱自己的地方，但是您的地方，或者更确切地说，您的地方同胞却反对LGBTQ身份的诚实表达，该怎么办？也许您是在农村长大的，学会了园艺，以品尝宁静的树木茂密的山坡，春天的野花，田野上的放牧牲畜，但只能开车一两个小时才能享受其他同志的陪伴最近的同性恋酒吧？也许您仍然生活在长大的同一个小镇上，坐落在风景秀丽的山脉和河流交汇处，但是您知道，对同性吸引力诚实会使您成为玩笑，八卦，威胁或甚至是暴力。11