Gay cowboy history

As with today's gay rodeo scene, queer people were part of the mix, too, and some of them were indeed as tough as rawhide. Historians like Amanda Timpson bring the details.

In many cases, critics honed in on the two leads ’ occupations as cowboys, challenging the existence of a “gay cowboy” in American history. One critic wrote that the film was a “mockery of the Western genre embodied in every movie cowboy from John Wayne to Gene Autry to Clint Eastwood.