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How a transgender-owned alpaca ranch in Colorado foretells the future of the rural queer West.
A year ago, transgender rancher Penny Logue found the dome. Fed up with a hostile landlord in the city and fearful for their safety amid record-high deaths in the transgender community nationwide, Logue and her business partner, Bonnie Nelson, sought refuge in the rural, open rangelands.
The geodesic dome perched on sprawling acreage in the remote Wet Mountain Valley on the eastern flank of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range, near the rural ranching hamlet of Westcliffe, Colorado.
They were intrigued. “Domes are funky and cool and a bit against the status quo and they help the planet,” Logue told me. So they bought it.
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