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Contents:

• THE REAL GAY WBOYS
• MEET HEATH'S MATE, THE REAL GAY WBOY
• MONTANA GLAMPG: THIS IS HOW TO FD YOUR INNER GAY COWBOY
• THE GEO PHOTOS FROM A GAY ROO WILL TRIGGER YOUR INNER COWBOY
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE
• GAY ROOS ARE QUEER SPAC RAL PLAC
• THE FANTASY OF THE STRAIGHT WBOY: HOW GAY ROOS UPEND PRUMPTNS ABOUT LIFE RAL AMERI
• GAY COWBOY

THE REAL GAY WBOYS

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. 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.

Ask anyone who’s seen Brokeback Mounta (2005) to characterize the film three words, and you’re almost certa to hear some variatn of “gay wboy love-story.

Detractors, largely spearhead by right-wg and relig groups, quickly and fervently emed the film’s pictn of a homosexual uple immoral, evince of an attempt to femize men, and even anti-Amerin.

MEET HEATH'S MATE, THE REAL GAY WBOY

In many s, crics honed on the two leads ’ occupatns as wboys, challengg the existence of a “gay wboy” Amerin history. ” Other crics acced filmmakers of phg an “agenda” onto Amerins, wh one wrg that “Hollywood screenwrers and producers thk that ’s their duty to teach Ameri that homosexual nduct and cross-drsg are normal behavrs that should be affirmed Amerin culture. The beliefs, though objectively bafflg, beg tertg qutns: Was homosexualy ever accepted Ameri’s past?

Supported by sendary sourc, I will argue that this myth is rooted homoerotic relatnships, a reflectn of historil fact.

MONTANA GLAMPG: THIS IS HOW TO FD YOUR INNER GAY COWBOY

In light of this ntentn, I will explore the reali of homosexualy and homosocialy amongst wboys the Old Wt, argug that they were accepted and monplace. ” While Cooper do not tail explic sex between the two, their relatnship is unmistakably homosocial. In this way, Cooper has embedd an acknowledgement of same-sex love the very heart of Amerin myth, directly ntrastg claims that homosexualy is an unnatural and/or morn ventn.

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

Furthermore, the homosocialy scribed Cooper’s work is not purely imagative, but actually reflective of historil rerds ditg the prence of homoerotic relatnships among wboys the ontier wt, keepg wh Cooper’s assertn that the stori were spired by tal he had been told by actual wboys.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE

“Homoerotic iendships prerve privilege and ensure survival a hostile wilrns” (Packard 15).

GAY ROOS ARE QUEER SPAC RAL PLAC

This is also nsistent wh fdgs like those Aled Ksey’s notor 1948 study, Sexual Behavr the Human Male, which reported the hight equenci of homosexual timacy to be among men ral farmg muni; probably, Ksey nclud, much like their pneer forebearers the ontier wt.

THE FANTASY OF THE STRAIGHT WBOY: HOW GAY ROOS UPEND PRUMPTNS ABOUT LIFE RAL AMERI

Ined, Ksey’s ntentn reflects primary source material ditg homosexual relatnships among ontier wboys.

GAY COWBOY

One such source, a limerick that allus to homosexual timacy between wboys, was found by historian Clifford Wtermeier and published his 1976 say “The Cowboy and Sex. This suggts not only the prence of homosexual timacy the ontier wt, but also a greater culture of sexual ambiguy.