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Contents:

• THE GEO PHOTOS FROM A GAY ROO WILL TRIGGER YOUR INNER COWBOY
• THE REAL GAY WBOYS
• COWBOY FDS HOME GAY ROO
• GAY COWBOY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• AT MEXI’S GAY WBOY NVENTNS, MEN NNECT WH EACH OTHER — AND THEIR UNTRY’S GGED PAST
• COLORADO GAY DU RANCH

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

The words “gay” and “wboy” go together like peanut butter and jelly. Jt about everythg about the wboy way of life screams gay: leather, assls chaps, wboy hats, nim jackets, tight jeans, and spendg a lot of time buildg up a sweat wh other guys.

Next time someone says wboys aren’t gay, simply pot them to the five movi. Speakg of Brokeback Mounta, this is the blueprt for the morn gay wboy film.

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Brokeback Mounta was a heartbreakg movie, but also was one of the first gay films to be regnized as a te masterpiece. It’s not exactly the same type of prtige drama as the other films on this list, but Dashg December has s own special place our gay wboy hearts.

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. 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.

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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.

"As far as gay rights go, we'd be happy to get all this crap over wh, " Bidwell told BuzzFeed News. WE ARE an all-male clothg optnal bed and breakfast retreat terg to gay, bi, and straight men 21 years or olr. (Image cred: Alamy)The actor Sam Elltt's ntroversial recent ments cricised The Power of the Dog's 'allns to homosexualy', but queer readgs of wterns stretch back s, and Zachariah is a prime example, wr Sean the ialistic 1960s gave way to the cynil 1970s, US cema began servg up creasgly nihilistic and psychologilly plex stori, all wh sour endgs to match.

Zachariah ptur the overlap between anti-Vietnam War, rock mic, sexual liberatn, femism, the emergence of gay rights, civil rights, environmentalism – they're all alcg – Gary NeedhamZachariah's screenplay was rewrten many tim. In all s Firign-fuelled youth-culture provotn, Needham tells BBC Culture, the film "ptur the overlap between anti-Vietnam War, rock mic, sexual liberatn, femism, the emergence of gay rights, civil rights, environmentalism – they're all alcg" wtern was a predomant mo through which mascule performance was tght, pecially to young whe Amerin menThe boys' embrace at the end of Zachariah, then, is an earnt rebuttal of the toxic, vlent mascule mor on which the wtern genre was built. So is Zachariah a gay wtern?

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The gay prs asked the same qutn.

Wh Don Johnson gracg s ver, the March 1971 edn of The Advote, the US's olst LGBT publitn, featured a review wh the headle "Are they gay?

On the homosexual implitns of the iendship, he wrote, "I'm aaid that's all is – iendship, " addg that the film's script leads to the brk of homosexualy only to back away before be explic. " Gay people will be posive that the boys were lovers, and the straights will be left wh only spicns.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

The New York Tim' Roger Greenspun looked closer (too close, perhaps), ncludg that the film "propagandised homosexual love".

In his book Idol Worship: A Shamels Celebratn of Male Bety the Movi (2003), Michael Fergon refers to Johnson at this stage of his reer as "an stant h wh gay dienc", and "sold as chicken feed and pecked at wh light". Nu stills om his works were regularly prted gay magaz, and Johnson was, says Fergon, "extremely gay-iendly and gay-thankful". When Zach first approach Matthew, he’s shirtls and sweaty, wearg ltle but a blacksmh's smock, Fergon wrote: "the homoerotic possibili of this exchange [might] turn to the first gay wtern sce Andy Warhol's Lonome Cowboys (1969)".

But the sequence speaks to the experienc of many gay men too. Red River (1948), a film laced wh nuendo which John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, a closeted gay man, admire each other's firearms, was labelled a queer touchstone – alongsi Calamy Jane (1953) and Johnny Guar (1954), which also upend genr rol – Vo Rso's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi, and the documentary of the same name (1995). Andy Warhol's Horse (1965) and Lonome Cowboys (1969) make clear the nnectns between stume, Amerin male inty and homosexualy.

AT MEXI’S GAY WBOY NVENTNS, MEN NNECT WH EACH OTHER — AND THEIR UNTRY’S GGED PAST

"The wboy has always had a lot of currency gay eroti and eventual pornography, " says Needham, who pots also to gay-liberatn films such as Song of the Loon (1970), and gay porn featur such as The Savag (1971), as exampl. Zachariah picts men, even if they're not terpreted as gay, as unbound by the mascule paranoia that surrounds touch, feelgs and emotnsIn 1969, Midnight Cowboy would repackage the them and athetics to ask qutns about Ameri's mols of masculy.

Needham wr his say Hollywood Tra: Midnight Cowboy and Unrground Cema, the film "'outs' post-war gay culture's cultural productn and erotic fascatn wh wboys". That, says Needham, might be part of Zachariah's appeal to gay dienc: bee picts men, even if they're not terpreted as gay, as unbound by the mascule paranoia that surrounds touch, feelgs and emotns. There was clearly a precent for gay wboys by 1971, even if was mostly unknown to Zachariah's makers.

And as Sam Elltt's ntroversial ments regardg Jane Campn's The Power of The Dog's "allns to homosexualy" this week show, 's an archetype that some fd hard to shake. One Wyomg native, playwright Sandy Dixon, was quoted an article the Casper, Wyomg Star-Tribune newspaper, which was then wily reported natnal media, claimg she had certaly never met a gay wboy, and that “real wboys” would dismiss the film as “hogwash.

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Real gay ranchers, who do fact exist, whether Dixon knowgly met them or not, may beg to differ that the film don’t embellish at all.

“The movie shows that world very much the way is, ” affirms Lehman, who is gay, and who also spent many years livg the closet. Mike Hartman, a 47-year gay rancher who rais hors Estada, Oregon agre. “Back home, I had a iend who went to a rival high school and we would meet up secret, ” explas Lehman, who now pet on both the straight and gay roo circus.