In agriculture, heterosexual and cisgender farmers benefit from merging the public and private spheres through the “family farm” model. In comparison, heterosexist expectations relegate queerness to the private sphere and burden queer farmers with the work of gaining acceptance among rural and agrarian communities. Based on interviews with 20 queer farmers in the northeastern United States, this article examines the role of queerness in shaping farmers' participation in agriculture. Findings show that queer farmers actively maneuver their identity based on presumptions of heterosexism, illustrating how queerness, as an aspect of identity, is widely overlooked as a critical vector that influences participation in farming. Through daily interactions with customers, other farmers, and community members, queer farmers develop strategies to mitigate heterosexism's negative implications. Queer farmers participated in alternative agriculture, leveraged the rural politics of recognition, and selectively outed themselves. As a structural issue, however, heterosexism remains an embodied hardship for queer farmers. Queer farmers' experiences offer new pathways for understanding rural community development in the agrarian transition. These results illustrate that agricultural organizations, farm policy, and rural community theorizing would benefit from viewing queerness as a critical axis of consideration in farming rather than a private matter not suitable for farming spaces.

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农场“出局”：操纵异性恋和知名度的酷儿农民*

在农业领域，异性恋和顺性别农民受益于通过“家庭农场”模式将公共领域和私人领域融合在一起。相比之下，异性恋者的期望将酷儿现象贬低到私人领域，并让酷儿农民承担获得农村和农业社区认可的工作。本文基于对美国东北部 20 名酷儿农民的采访，考察了酷儿在塑造农民参与农业中的作用。研究结果表明，酷儿农民根据异性恋假设积极地操纵他们的身份，说明作为身份的一个方面，酷儿是如何被广泛忽视为影响参与农业的关键载体。通过与客户、其他农民和社区成员的日常互动，酷儿农民制定策略来减轻异性恋的负面影响。酷儿农民参与替代农业，利用农村的认可政治，并有选择地出柜。然而，作为一个结构性问题，异性恋仍然是酷儿农民的具体困难。酷儿农民的经历为理解农业转型中的农村社区发展提供了新途径。这些结果表明，农业组织、农业政策和农村社区理论将受益于将酷儿视为农业考虑的关键轴，而不是不适合农业空间的私人问题。并有选择地暴露自己。然而，作为一个结构性问题，异性恋仍然是酷儿农民的具体困难。酷儿农民的经历为理解农业转型中的农村社区发展提供了新途径。这些结果表明，农业组织、农业政策和农村社区理论将受益于将酷儿视为农业考虑的关键轴，而不是不适合农业空间的私人问题。并有选择地暴露自己。然而，作为一个结构性问题，异性恋仍然是酷儿农民的具体困难。酷儿农民的经历为理解农业转型中的农村社区发展提供了新途径。这些结果表明，农业组织、农业政策和农村社区理论将受益于将酷儿视为农业考虑的关键轴，而不是不适合农业空间的私人问题。