Explorg the Hidn Gay History of the Wild Wt (Part I) • Salt Lake Magaze

homosexuality in the wild west

Wtern film in Sam Ellt might be the next to be nceled, bee he exprsed some wrongthk about the Amerin Wild Wt and gays.

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AMERI'S WILD WT WAS SUPER GAY? WUT.

* homosexuality in the wild west *

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.

IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG

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?

Supported by sendary sourc, I will argue that this myth is rooted homoerotic relatnships, a reflectn of historil fact.

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