Begaygreg | Voic of Gay Roo

Contents:

• WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT GAY ROO?
• GREG BEGAY
• VOIC OF GAY ROO
• GAY ROO ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
• COLLECTG VISUAL VOIC: UNRSTANDG INTY, COMMUNY, AND THE MEANG OF PARTICIPATN WH GAY ROOS
• VISUALIZG SUBJECTS: SUCCS AND FAILUR DATA TAGGG GAY ROO ORAL HISTORI
• ‘QUEENS & COWBOYS: A STRAIGHT YEAR ON THE GAY ROO’: FILM REVIEW

WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT GAY ROO?

Voic of Gay RooOral Histori om the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn. Greg Begay. Greg Begay was born on the Navajo Rervatn and grew up around Klagetoh, Arizona.

GREG BEGAY

Charlie’s beme a central nightclub for the Colorado Gay Roo Associatn wh John Kg and his iend Wayne Jako beg foundg members of IGRA. Gay Roo Oral History: Imageand theVoic of Gay RooThe Gay Roo Oral History Project is a multipronged public humani project. It began 2016 as a partnership between the Universy of Idaho and the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn.

VOIC OF GAY ROO

To date we've nducted over sixty terviews, wrten a play, and curated a web exhib at Gay Roo Oral History: WeleGay Roo Oral History: Pro GalleryVisGay Roo Oral History: About MePlease also check out our verbatim play, "That Damn Horse: the Stori of Gay Roo. "Wrten wh -thors Court Fund, Kendra Phillips, and Robert Roo Oral History: QuoteOur Work Has Been Supported By:A Universy of Idaho (UI) Seed Grant, 2016-2017A Whg Public Engagement Fellowship, 2019-2021UI Printial Rearch Fund on Diversy, Equy, and Incln Grant, 2021UI CLASS Summer Rearch Grant, 2021Gay Roo Oral History: Experience. Outrirs explor the histori of rooers at the margs of society, om female bronc-rirs the 1910s and 1920s and nvict wboys Texas the mid-twentieth century to all-black roos the 1960s and 1970s and gay rooers the late twentieth century.

The visible gap between women who n afford, eher enomilly or socially, to wear extreme forms of nail art publilly marks women as culturally acceptable or socially Roo Oral History ProjectPrcipal Invtigator 2016-PrentThe Gay Roo Oral History Project is dited to llectg and prervg the personal stori of the men and women volved wh the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn. Gay roo started forty years ago 1976, sparkg s-long bat about masculy, sexualy and the wboy. Today, active members who n rell the early days of gay roo are passg away or beg ls active the associatn.

GAY ROO ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

The experienc of the wtern gay women and men are at risk of beg fotten. We work directly wh the roo associatn’s archiv mtee to nduct, transcribe, and archive their oral of Gay RooOnle Exhib 2016-PrentPartnerg wh the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn to llect and prerve people’s experienc as LGBTQ+ wterners, this project seeks to protect endangered histori and relote LGBTQ+ people back to the Amerin Wt as people ntue to build rilient Gay Roo Oral History Project was created 2016 wh the aid of a Universy of Idaho Seed Grant which purchased basic equipment and fund travel to several roos over the urse of a year.

Havg nducted archival rearch on the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn at the Autry Mm of the Amerin Wt, I was stck by the prer future of the associatn, the ep mment of s members, and the rary of public-facg projects engaged wh ral LGBTQ+ muni. Roos have been an tegral part of Amerin wboy culture sce the 1800s, however, wasn’t until the 1970s when gay roos began to form and challenge some of the assumptns about ‘wboys, ’ ‘sexualy, ’ and ‘masculy. ’ The purpose of this ethnographic study was to utilize participant-driven photo-elicatn (PDPE) method to unrstand how dividuals who participate gay roos experience their inti and the meangs they attribute to their participatn this queer subculture.

The diverse imag shared by the participants illtrate their unique inti and the var meangs they attribute to their participatn gay roo. The fdgs om this study serve to highlight var aspects of the gay roo subculture and the role of gay roo as a se of support and solidary for LGBTQ muni.

COLLECTG VISUAL VOIC: UNRSTANDG INTY, COMMUNY, AND THE MEANG OF PARTICIPATN WH GAY ROOS

In this study, gay roo emerg as a space of nttatn, ristance and reifitn of genr norms and heterosexualy. The fdgs ll to qutn tensns that exist when tryg to dismantle sexual mory stereotyp while simultaneoly perpetuatg whe hegemonic masculy through the pervasive image of the gay wboy.

Interrogatg the ways which gay roo participants simultaneoly rerced and challenged hegemonic masculy helps to unrstand how the ialized (hetero)sexual imag of wboys nnected to symbolic power, strength and self-worth, posn gay roo participants. This rearch study also reveals that participants of gay roo, who travel wh and across the USA orr to participate roo events, experiment wh multiple non-heterosexual inti as they search for spac and muni away om pulsory heterosexualy.

VISUALIZG SUBJECTS: SUCCS AND FAILUR DATA TAGGG GAY ROO ORAL HISTORI

Voic of Gay Roo. Of Washgton Prs, 2019) exam how margalized groups, such as gay men and rcerated people, ed roo to assert their place a natnal is the Prciple Invtigator for the Gay Roo Oral History Project, -creator of the web exhib Voic of Gay Roo, and -thor of the verbatim theater piece That Damn Horse: The Stori of Gay Roo. She is currently -thorg a send book entled Slappg Leather: Sport and Performance at the Gay Roo.

The Gay Roo Oral History Project. Gay wboys, queer wfolx, and LGBTQ untry-wterners have spent s stakg a claim to wtern inty through roo, square dancg, and untry-wtern bars. The Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn (IGRA) was formed durg Reagan’s Ameri and the AIDS epimic and has flourished for four s.

The urgent need to llect and retell the vibrant stori of queer wfolx drove to create the Gay Roo Oral History Project 2016. Aidg IGRA’s own qut to prerve s history as part of the diverse Amerin Wt, we have also sought to not only llect but to make the histori available to our stunts, other rearchers, and the general public through our curated web exhib Voic of Gay Roo.

‘QUEENS & COWBOYS: A STRAIGHT YEAR ON THE GAY ROO’: FILM REVIEW

This tool, now known as Oral History as Data, lor s subjects throughout each terview and across the llectn of oral histori as a whole (see the Voic of Gay Roo Visualizatns page below for an example), allowg a er to see and explore var subjects across a llectn of oral histori. The lor-d subject visualizatn featured on the Voic of Gay Roo webse.

Selected visualizatn for the topic of “homophobia” on Voic of Gay Roo exhib.

As we have ployed the tools our exhib and the classroom, our creative team was also able to utilize the tool other creative ways, cludg our verbatim theater piece That Damn Horse: The Stori of Gay Roo. A llaboratn between the Gay Roo Oral History Project and Rob Caisley, chair of the UI Department of Theatre, this play draws om dozens of our terviews to weave together a broad nversatn about the meang and experience of gay roo. In this play, we built off the amework of the visualizatn tools to place gay rooers nversatn wh each other.