'Woof Bang' honours farmer and entrepreneur Matt Naylor, one of the men behind Agrespect, the online network celebrating LGBTQ+ people in farming and rural communities.

 

Matt grew up in Lincolnshire in the 1980's under the shadow of homophobia from his own family.

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In an extract taken from Queen and Country Magazine, Matt recalls:

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I can remember, I was about 10 years old, being at my grandparents house when an item came on the news about gay rights. My grandad, who was not a liberal man, switched the telly off and said “If a dog did that, you would shoot it”

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I remember wondering “Would you? You’d ACTUALLY shoot the dog?”

 

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Read the full article here:

 

https://queenandcountrymagazine.co.uk/all/2018/8/storiesfromtheland-matt