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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?
Oral Histori om the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn * voices of gay rodeo *
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
Item om Center for Digal Inquiry and Learng (CDIL): Partnerg 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... * voices of gay rodeo *
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.
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.
VOIC OF GAY ROO
* voices of gay rodeo *
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.
The experienc of the wtern gay women and men are at risk of beg fotten.
GAY ROO ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
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.
COLLECTG VISUAL VOIC: UNRSTANDG INTY, COMMUNY, AND THE MEANG OF PARTICIPATN WH GAY ROOS
’ 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.
VISUALIZG SUBJECTS: SUCCS AND FAILUR DATA TAGGG GAY ROO ORAL HISTORI
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.
‘QUEENS & COWBOYS: A STRAIGHT YEAR ON THE GAY ROO’: FILM REVIEW
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. Voic of Gay Roo.