🏞️ Why Land Access is a Queer Issue

🏞️ Why Land Access is a Queer Issue

Understanding the history, the harm, and the hope in reclaiming land for LGBTQIA+ communities.

When people talk about land ownership in the U.S., they rarely talk about it as a queer issue. But it is.

The history of land in this country is layered with dispossession, exclusion, and systemic inequity—especially for Black and brown communities, Indigenous peoples, women, and queer and trans folks. Today, who owns land—and who doesn’t—is a direct result of those legacies.

At Y’allsWell Ranch, we’re not just building a wellness space. We’re reclaiming access to land as a form of healing, liberation, and resistance.

🌎 The Land Ownership Gap

Here’s what we know:

  • White Americans own over 96% of farmland in the United States.

  • LGBTQIA+ individuals have a homeownership rate of just 51%, compared to 71% for straight, cisgender people.

  • Black Americans lost over 90% of their agricultural land in the 20th century due to discriminatory practices and legal loopholes.

  • Trans and gender-diverse people face higher rates of housing instability and landlessness due to systemic exclusion.

This isn’t accidental. It’s the result of redlining, discriminatory lending, forced displacement, and intergenerational economic inequality.

🏡 So, Why Is Land Important for Queer Liberation?

Because land is more than property—it’s power, peace, and possibility.

Access to land means:

  • A place to gather, safely and freely

  • The ability to grow food, community, and wealth

  • The chance to build something outside of extractive systems

  • A way to reconnect with the earth—on our own terms

When queer people own land, we gain the space to imagine entirely new ways of living. That’s what we’re doing at Y’allsWell Ranch.

🌿 Queer Farming & Agrarian Futures

There’s a growing movement of queer folks turning to land-based living as a means of healing and resistance. We’re seeing:

  • Queer-run farms and mutual aid gardens

  • BIPOC land reclamation projects

  • Nature-based wellness spaces centering LGBTQIA+ safety

  • A return to communal models of land stewardship instead of individual ownership

These spaces aren’t just beautiful—they’re radical alternatives to systems that were never made for us.

✨ Y’allsWell as a Living Example

We’re still in the early stages of building Y’allsWell Ranch—but the vision is crystal clear.

This land will offer:

  • Accessible farm experiences for queer, trans, and gender-expansive people

  • Retreats and programming that reconnect us with movement, nature, and joy

  • Healing-centered infrastructure like aromatherapy gardens, sensory walking paths, and cold plunge zones

  • A donation- and merch-powered model that keeps the space for the people

🫶 Want to Be Part of This?

Here’s how you can support this vision:

Land is power. Land is healing. Land is queer.
Let’s reclaim it—together.
This is Y’allsWell.

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