Gay Roo Event Calendar

Contents:

• THE GEO PHOTOS FROM A GAY ROO WILL TRIGGER YOUR INNER COWBOY
• EVER BEEN TO THE GAY ROO?
• INTERNATNAL GAY ROO ASSOCIATN

THE GEO PHOTOS FROM A GAY ROO WILL TRIGGER YOUR INNER COWBOY

Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn. You don't have to be gay to pete, you jt have to be of legal age. Feb 17 - 19, Arizona Gay Roo, Phoenix, AZ.

Every year thoands of people flock to Las Vegas om around the world to watch men and women pete the World Gay Roo Fals. Those petg the World Gay Roo Fals, hosted by the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn (IGRA), are the bt of the bt om all of the 18 participatg regnal roos, which take place all over Ameri.

EVER BEEN TO THE GAY ROO?

Bidwell said a lot of the participants who left the associatn were "profsnal gays or ernmental gays, " and when their lleagu found out they were part of the associatn, began to e a problem. The IGRA has chapters 10 of the 13 stat where gay marriage is still illegal. Bidwell said that many of the roo's staff and participants are married to one another, whether gay marriage is legal their state or not.

"The Roo Associatns often sell equal marriage paraphernalia at their events and participate lol gay pri march, but the primary foc remas on roo.

INTERNATNAL GAY ROO ASSOCIATN

"As far as gay rights go, we'd be happy to get all this crap over wh, " Bidwell told BuzzFeed News. For some LGBTQ wterners, that means the gay roo. For s, the gay roo has provid a safe space for LGBTQ whands to pete events like bull ridg, barrel racg, and lf ropg as their te selv.

Not many people know about the gay roo, though has actually been around for s. Promently featured the documentary is Cowboy Frank, who has been volved wh the gay roo sce 1996 as a photographer and webse manager.

Frank is the webmaster for the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn and also has his own webse chroniclg the gay roo’s past and prent. Unlike the straight roo, as he lled , Frank said the gay roo enurag a culture of supportg one another.