Annual Colorado gay roo draws fans om around the untry - OUT FRONT

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• ANNUAL COLORADO GAY ROO DRAWS FANS OM AROUND THE UNTRY
• COLORADO GAY ROO
• BEGNGS OF THE GAY ROO COLORADO
• LONGT NNG GAY ROO ASSOCIATN THE U.S. CELEBRAT 40 YEARS
• JULY 11-13: COLORADO GAY ROO

ANNUAL COLORADO GAY ROO DRAWS FANS OM AROUND THE UNTRY

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COLORADO GAY ROO

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And to many lbian and gay people all around Colorado, the big event of the summer isn’t PriFt or bar hoppg downtown. It is the longt nsistently nng gay roo the world, and is every sense a real untry roo – wh bull-ridg, barrel clowns, rac and big unly crowds. Growg up lbian or gay is a different experience those plac – and life ntu to be different for LGBT people whose Wtern roots n so ep they jt n’t leave the untry life.

“I lived a small town where people knew so much about you they knew how many sheets of toilet paper you ed to wipe your ass, ” joked Robert Thurtell, print of the Colorado Gay Roo Associatn, who is eagerly settg up for this year’s event.

BEGNGS OF THE GAY ROO COLORADO

He said was tough to grow up gay a place like that, and that spe of close-kn small town muny life and stereotypil gossip, the ph LGBT people sought and ntue to seek is not for social acceptance but a “live-and-let-live” motto. Gay bars or dance venu are few and far between ral unti, and a typil gatherg is a dner party at a lbian or gay uple’s hoe or a special event at lol “straight” bar.

LONGT NNG GAY ROO ASSOCIATN THE U.S. CELEBRAT 40 YEARS

Dan Rutledge, spokman for CGRA, grew up the small town of Rawls, Wyomg – a state whout a sgle gay bar, and he was the only “out” person he knew growg up.

’” Rutledge said a handful of CGRA members live Wyomg, where there is no longer a gay roo associatn. The Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn is a work of LGBT-iendly roo anizatns across North Ameri, wh big events that span om Calgary to Florida.

Thurtell said Colorado’s gay roo is probably the send or third largt ternatnally, wh draws of up to 2, 000 visors, more than 100 volunteers, around 130 nttants and a budget of nearly $120, 000.

JULY 11-13: COLORADO GAY ROO

She also poted out that mastream roos have not yet accepted openly-gay participants. Gay roos feature drag queen royalty who perform rout throughout the weekend. In gay roos, some petors may even pete events full drag, and feature fun or silly “mp events” such as “goat drsg, ” a race to put women’s unrwear on a goat.