Jt as Brokeback Mounta h movie theaters early 2006, The Learng Channel ble work lnched Beyond the Bull, a realy-based seri dited to profilg world champn bull rirs as regular guys who were belt-buckle ep wiv, kids, girliends, and groupi. Was Beyond the Bull a propaganda move timed to unter Brokeback’s gay wboys?…
Contents:
- THE REAL GAY WBOYS
- GAY COWBOYS? SURE, PARDNER.
- THE GEO PHOTOS FROM A GAY ROO WILL TRIGGER YOUR INNER COWBOY
THE REAL GAY WBOYS
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.
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. This is a man – a big, strong, hont, hard-workg man – who was raised a very homophobic society.
GAY COWBOYS? SURE, PARDNER.
And they’re also pleased that “Brokeback Mounta” puts forth an image of gay characters that has been seen too equently the mastream media, that of the gged everyman who jt happens to be gay.
THE GEO PHOTOS FROM A GAY ROO WILL TRIGGER YOUR INNER COWBOY
“This movie do show somethg that people probably don’t know about, ” offers Hartman, who, wh an admted penchant for chewg tobac and his love of ranchg fi any “Queer Eye” notns of what a gay man may be. “It’s 2006 and shows like ‘Will & Grace’ have put posive gay characters out there, but this film tells another valid story.
Not surprisgly, when asked how he’d answer those folks who claim that Brokeback’s notn of gays on the range is “hogwash, ” the normally staid horseman Hartman jt chuckl. The are wterns that foc on gay relatnships, overtly or thematilly.