Posted on 01/16/2006 7:02:01 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Homosexual on the range: rodeo where gay cowboys can ride high
From Chris Ayres in Phoenix, Arizona
THE gate opens, and the beast head down and nostrils flared with anger bolts out into the arena. Clinging to its horns is a young man in leather chaps and a cowboy shirt.
Pull him over! Roll! Roll! yells a hoarse female voice from somewhere above.
But the beast, a castrated ox, or steer, is winning this particular duel. The cowboys face is a study of determination thwarted by mortal terror.
Cmon, youre bigger than him! shouts the voice (not strictly true), but it is too late: the cowboy is already face down in the dirt and the steer has won its freedom, for now.
Thats how I got gored, explains Dan Iversen, the 50-year-old organiser of todays 2006 Road Runner Regional Rodeo, held outside Phoenix. The animal just threw his head back and the horn went right into my groin area. I didnt even feel it at first because I was experiencing such an adrenalin rush.
Mr Iversen is also in charge of the pre-event rodeo school that we are watching.
This, of course, is no ordinary rodeo event. It is gay rodeo, in which most of the participants are homosexual men. As well as bull riding and chute dogging (wrestling a steer to the ground), gay rodeo also includes goat dressing, which involves putting frilly underwear on a goat, and a royalty competition, a drag contest.
Started more than two decades ago as a secretive annual gathering, often picketed by Christian right-wingers, the gay rodeo has grown into a national event with 225 contestants and 3,000 spectators.
This years event, sponsored by Bud Light beer and Southern Comfort, is likely to be bigger than ever, thanks to the success of Brokeback Mountain, a film about forbidden love between two Wyoming cowboys.
Nevertheless, not all Arizonans are pleased about the celebration of gay cowboy pride. I have got nothing against them, said one local woman, who did not want to be named. But why does it have to be gay rodeo? Why not just rodeo?
The answer, say the gay cowboys, is that being openly gay in the Wild West has historically been unacceptable, and potentially dangerous. They should know: most of them were raised on ranches from South Dakota to Iowa. As ranchers, the men grew up listening to country music and performing the same tasks that are turned into competitive sport in rodeo. They say they are not hijacking a macho American institution to make a political statement they are simply being themselves.
When we first started the rodeo, we used to hide and not tell anyone, says Gary Hatterman, the 53-year-old president of the Arizona Gay Rodeo Association. Chuck Browning, 43, is a genuine gay cowboy from Wyoming. With his leather complexion, sun-bleached beard and huge gold belt buckle, he looks more cowboy than gay. The buckle is a prize from one of his many rodeo wins.
Ive split my head open ten times, Ive got two metal plates in my arm, and I broke my ankle, reveals Mr Browning. Behind him is parked an ambulance, ready to carry any rodeo participants to hospital.
There are still those who object to the gay cowboy lifestyle. We still get protesters every year, concedes Mr Inversen, with obvious disappointment.
But theyre mainly gay people protesting against the inhumane treatment of animals.
Is it me, or is the homosexual agenda hijacking each and every corner of American culture and history?
I remember sometime in the past few years that there was this junk historian who actually stated that President Abraham Lincoln was gay. I remember that his source of this charge was because as a young man, Lincoln had shared a bed with another man at a boarding house. Despite the fact that such sleeping arrangements were quite common before the 20th century (and there was no sexual connotation associated with it) this historian with an agenda put it our there just to debase one of our greatest leaders and to score a few points for the homosexual lobby.
I also vaguely remember back in the 1990s that there were some homosexual activists who were suggesting that Bugs Bunny was gay. Their justification: the rascally rabbit frequently kissed Elmer Fudd before escaping from the hunter's shotgun and Bugs had on several occasions dressed up as a female (remember the opera with "Kill The Wabbit!") I think I saw this debate on an episode of CNN's "Crossfire" with Pat Buchanan and Michael Kinsley.
It seems that the homosexual lobby goes to any length to pull and distort the perception of society and history just to put their behavior in a better light.
Anyways...this "gay rodeo" just smacks of another attempt by the homosexual culture to re-write American history and to further debase our society for their own narcissistic reasons.
Obviously, the mantra of "If it feels good, do it" is all that these homosexual activists cazre about.
---There are still those who object to the gay cowboy lifestyle. ---
What gay cowboy lifestyle?
Hmmm... no mention of jeans?
The gay rodeo has been around for years, decades in fact. It used to be held in Reno until they got run out of town.
Of course...
"But the beast . . . is winning this particular duel."
If a cock-knocker in "leather chaps and a cowboy shirt"
tried to pin me, I'd fight like hell too . . .
"Anyways...this "gay rodeo" just smacks of another attempt by the homosexual culture to re-write American history and to further debase our society for their own narcissistic reasons. "
The Brokeback cowboy might be being misinterpreted as a new phenomenon but according to the International Gay Rodeo Association, these events have been taking place for the past 30 years, which is about 13% of our nation's age. .
As for the debase of our society for their own narcissistic reasons, history will be the judge.
The History of Gay Rodeo
http://www.larodeo.com/glac/glac.php?page_id=2
Send Barney Franks to the rodeo.He's fit for some chute-dogging.
Barney tried farm life, but they handed him a milking pail and he kept wanting to service the bull . . . . .
Gay cowboys, gay rodeo, whatever. I still will never understand why queers want to do the extremely gross physical stuff they do. Yuk! Fudgecicles....
I do not want to be anywhere around when that "cowboy" starts "dogging" that poor animal's "chute".....
Yes, I bet it was. Too much to work with here and it's late.
So, that's the way you become gay.
Queers on steers - I think I'll pass!
There are still those who object to the gay cowboy lifestyle. We still get protesters every year, concedes Mr Inversen, with obvious disappointment.
But theyre mainly gay people protesting against the inhumane treatment of animals.
That was pretty funny though.
Does this mean that we can begin to have heterosexual events? I would sure as hell hope so. B/c perhaps it's high time to create some environments where we don't have to have "gaydom" shoved down our throats only to be called bigots when we get sick and tired of hearing about it.
I used to work with some gay waiters. Many in fact. Never had a problem with any of them either. But a pair of flamers at a convention center would always go on in avid detail about their "nights together." Many of us got more than a little PO'd. I really don't want to hear those details, and I mean details, even from a heterosexual pair let alone a gay pair.
These people, and I'm talking about the activist gays, can't just simply keep their lifestyles to themselves. This is one of the cascading evils that has escalated from the sex on TV and in the media that everyone said was benign decades ago now. It's crept in like a slowly forming fungus. And I'm referring to all immoral depictions.
Just wait, pretty soon we'll have people demanding to marry animals and other sick stuff. Sadly, it'll get taken seriously.
Of course...
You know the difference between a gay "rodeo" and a real one, don't you?
At the real rodeo, spectators call out "Ride that sucker!"
Cheers!
You know the difference between a gay "rodeo" and a real one, don't you?
At the real rodeo, spectators call out "Ride that sucker!"
Cheers!
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