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Can't we all just get a log?
Advocate, The, May 10, 2005 by Patrick Letellier
The phrase "log cabin gays no longer need refer only to Republicans. North Carolina-based Log Homes for Us is actively marketing do-it-yourself log cabin homes to gays and lesbians. "No one was catering to the gay community," says company founder Justin Porter, 27, who is gay, "so I thought, Let's do it!"
With nearly a hundred homes sold in the first two months--80% to lesbian couples in rural areas--Log Homes for Us hopes to sell 600 this year, about one sixth of the business of its parent company, the Original Log Cabin Homes Ltd.
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Delivered as numbered pieces on a flatbed truck, the homes are as easy to assemble as old-fashioned toy Lincoln Logs, Porter says, adding, "If you can count, you can put it together."
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