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WHAT KD OF GAY COWBOY ARE YOU
(multiple choice) I want to make sure as many people as possible know I'm gay I don't feel like this really needs to be a qutn—why n't I jt take this quiz whout the sexualy aspect beg brought up? What kd of gay wboy are you?
Cowboys e many shap and siz, but this is specifilly about the gay on so, yknow. 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.
THE REAL GAY WBOYS
“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. 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.