A short documentary follows a gay cattle farmer searching for connection and seeking to make change in an industry that’s largely rural and conservative. Watch here.
Jon Wright speculates that his outspokenness on climate change might be motivated by the same aversion to lying that helped him to come out.
From 2017 to 2019, southeastern Australia was ravaged by drought. New South Wales, the country’s most populous state, where much of its livestock is farmed, suffered the worst—the highest temperatures, the longest stretches without rain. The drought was the worst in living memory, and created the conditions for the catastrophic bushfires of 2019 and 2020. Many atmospheric scientists attribute its intensity to climate change. But among farmers that stance can be controversial.
Jon Wright, the subject of Luke Cornish’s documentary “Alone Out Here,” has spent the past two decades on his family’s farm, Coota Park, refining a cattle breed that releases lower levels of methane than average cows. In the past few years, Wright has regularly spoken publicly about how his industry has contributed to Australia’s carbon-emissions output, which, when put in per-capita terms, is among the world’s highest.
Cornish and his producing partner, Philip Busfield, found Wright on Grindr, and asked whether he’d be willing to answer a few basic questions. Wright responded with striking candor. It was a relief, Cornish told me, to meet someone open about the challenges of trying to accept—at least for the time being—solitude; someone who was “willing to say something about themselves which we’ve all felt, and we’re all a little afraid of.
“Alone Out Here” is careful not to make too tidy an equivalence between Wright’s gayness and his climate consciousness. But both qualities evince his willingness to bear the consequences of his convictions—perhaps shaped by what Cornish called Wright’s “farmer stoicism.
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