Roo: Real Gay Cowboys and Brokeback Mounta – Patricia Nell Warren | The Still Blue Project

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.

GAY COWBOYS? SURE, PARDNER.

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.

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. “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.

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

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. And spe Sam Elltt’s risn of the film (the actor, known largely for starrg wterns, took exceptn to “all the allns to homosexualy throughout the f— movie,” on Marc Maron’s podst this week), ’s a theme that’s been explored before.

He mocks Peter’s lisp and enurag the gay ephets hurled by his ranch hands. In the end, Jack is beaten to ath, much like a real-life gay Wyomg man, Matthew Shepard; Jack’s fay mak up a story about a roadsi accint to ver the tth.