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Contents:
- GAYNIGGERS OM OUTER SPACE
- THE REAL GAY WBOYS
- GAYCOWBOYCENTRAL: A WELG HOME FOR LGBTQ+ COWBOYS
- CONFSNS OF COWBOYS THE TEXAS GAY ROO
- MARCIA GAY HARN: SARA HOLLAND
GAYNIGGERS OM OUTER SPACE
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Ask anyone who’s seen Brokeback Mounta (2005) to characterize the film three words, and you’re almost certa to hear some variatn of “gay wboy love-story.
Detractors, largely spearhead by right-wg and relig groups, quickly and fervently emed the film’s pictn of a homosexual uple immoral, evince of an attempt to femize men, and even anti-Amerin. In many s, crics honed on the two leads ’ occupatns as wboys, challengg the existence of a “gay wboy” Amerin history. ” Other crics acced filmmakers of phg an “agenda” onto Amerins, wh one wrg that “Hollywood screenwrers and producers thk that ’s their duty to teach Ameri that homosexual nduct and cross-drsg are normal behavrs that should be affirmed Amerin culture.
The beliefs, though objectively bafflg, beg tertg qutns: Was homosexualy ever accepted Ameri’s past?
THE REAL GAY WBOYS
It’s a Sunday afternoon and three overlords of the Texas Gay Roo Associatn — which is exactly what sounds like — have ngregated to drk about “A Texas Tradn,” their big annual chary roo this weekend Denton. * gay cowboys from space *
Supported by sendary sourc, I will argue that this myth is rooted homoerotic relatnships, a reflectn of historil fact.
GAYCOWBOYCENTRAL: A WELG HOME FOR LGBTQ+ COWBOYS
In light of this ntentn, I will explore the reali of homosexualy and homosocialy amongst wboys the Old Wt, argug that they were accepted and monplace. ” While Cooper do not tail explic sex between the two, their relatnship is unmistakably homosocial.
In this way, Cooper has embedd an acknowledgement of same-sex love the very heart of Amerin myth, directly ntrastg claims that homosexualy is an unnatural and/or morn ventn.
CONFSNS OF COWBOYS THE TEXAS GAY ROO
Furthermore, the homosocialy scribed Cooper’s work is not purely imagative, but actually reflective of historil rerds ditg the prence of homoerotic relatnships among wboys the ontier wt, keepg wh Cooper’s assertn that the stori were spired by tal he had been told by actual wboys. “Homoerotic iendships prerve privilege and ensure survival a hostile wilrns” (Packard 15).
MARCIA GAY HARN: SARA HOLLAND
Homosexualy was an act, not an orientatn.
This is also nsistent wh fdgs like those Aled Ksey’s notor 1948 study, Sexual Behavr the Human Male, which reported the hight equenci of homosexual timacy to be among men ral farmg muni; probably, Ksey nclud, much like their pneer forebearers the ontier wt.
Ined, Ksey’s ntentn reflects primary source material ditg homosexual relatnships among ontier wboys.