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whatthefluffnightvale · 1 year

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Really awesome article was published today (April 30th, 2023) about gay rodeo!!!

Please give it a read, and if anyone wants information on how to get involved: where to go watch, or even competing- just let me know. Gay rodeo has been going on since the 60s and has chapters in several states in the US, as well as in Canada. But only has a fraction of the numbers it used to, and very few younger folks.

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rootin-n-bootin · 3 months

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I wish more folks knew about the gay rodeo :(

Cool community, incredible history, and amazing opportunity to interact with queer elders

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hyperallergic · 2 years

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Los Angeles-based photographer Luke Gilford’s tender images of gay rodeos offer an updated version of the mythologized American cowboy.

#Luke Gilford #Rodeo #Western #International Gay Rodeo Association #Cowboy #photography

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roancowgirl · 5 months

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Howdy y’all! I made a discord server for queer folks in the western equine/rodeo industry to hang out.

It’s friendly to all queer folks, and allies interested in the queer side of the western industry. The link can be found below. Stop by and hang out, we’d love to have you!

We have a section that’s still a work in progress for queer associations such as gay rodeo, along with a calendar of upcoming events that these associations put on. If you know of any queer organizations or events, such as rodeos, trail rides, barrel races, etc that you think could be added to the list, please dm me!

For those unfamiliar with queer folks in western spaces, here’s some articles. We’ve always been here and there’s space for us in the industry

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Me and my gf at the gay rodeo in texas earlier this year

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queernewspaperarchive · 1 year

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The Advocate (1980)

#queer history #1980 #queer #gay #lesbian #lgbt #history #gay rodeo #international gay rodeo association #cowboy #cowgirl

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edge--effects · 7 months

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NPR did a short piece on last weekend’s Best Buck in the Bay gay rodeo!

#gay rodeo #golden state gay rodeo association #international gay rodeo association #queer #lgbt #lgbtqia #queer history

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macmanx · 1 year

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Many rodeo associations limit roughstock competitions to men, but online research led Sarah to a circuit that didn’t have any such restrictions. It was appealing to her for other reasons, too. The first competition of what eventually became the International Gay Rodeo Association was held in Reno, Nevada, in 1976. Within a few years, the one-off event had evolved into a gay-rodeo circuit, with subchapters scattered throughout the West; the Texas Gay Rodeo Association was established in 1983. This year, there are a dozen I.G.R.A. events, in places like Salt Lake City and Las Vegas and Santa Fe, culminating in the World Gay Rodeo Finals in El Reno, Oklahoma, in October.

#lgbtqia+#rodeo #igra #international gay rodeo association #texas

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metaknightsoul · 1 year

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I want to see the most homophobic looking person whose actually gay. Like duck bill hat (not MAGA), Jean jacket, USA shirt, and steel toe boots.

#international gay rodeo association #gay #gaylife #I need to see #Like l think it will complete me

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qupritsuvwix · 2 years

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#international gay rodeo association #luke gilford #photography

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quuaartzzz · 1 year

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National Anthem by Luke Gilford

“National Anthem by Luke Gilford. The exhibition is Gilford’s first solo show in New York. The work Gilford is presenting is the result of years documenting the unique subculture within the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) – the organizing body for the LGBTQ+ cowboy and cowgirl communities in North America.”

#southwest #americana #cowboycore

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whatthefluffnightvale · 1 year

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Hey I saw your blaze and despite living Denton, I had no idea about the rodeo! Ty, I def wanna get involved!

Here’s the link to the Texas gay rodeo association- http://tgra.org/

If you scroll to the bottom of the page you’ll find emails to the different chapters within the state!

Here’s also a link to the International Gay Rodeo Association that the Texas Gay Rodeo Association is a part of- http://www.igra.com/

The Denton Gay Rodeo is once a year. However, all the chapters within the state hold monthly meetings, get togethers, and fundraisers! Checking out one of their events would be a good way to get more information. The Denton Gay Rodeo is also a part of a circuit of rodeos all over the country and you can find the calendars to those on the IGRA website.

I also highly recommend following the gay rodeos on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/Texas.Gay.Rodeo.Association?mibextid=LQQJ4d

And

https://m.facebook.com/IGRARodeo/?mibextid=LQQJ4d

If you want help finding more info on competing or anything else, send me a dm!

#international gay rodeo association #Texas gay rodeo association #gay cowboys #cowfolks #cowgirls #pride

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betweenthings2 · 2 months

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tell us more about gay rodeo

Absolutely.

I'll preface this with the fact that rodeo is not my chosen horse sport. I did western gaming (like barrel racing, pole bending, ect) for a while when I was a kid, but I mostly do eventing now, which makes me about as insane as a person who gets on a bucking horse or bull, or more because I don't win any money, and some show jumping.

First and foremost, though, tell me rodeo is not camp as all hell. You can't. Rodeo is so fucking camp. There is, if you don't know, an International Gay Rodeo Association and they have been around since the mid-1980s and they oversee gay rodeos in the US and Canada. They do a lot of fundraising and awareness raising for the sport and Western American culture and work with regional organizations with similar missions to put on rodeos. They put on typical rodeo events, like bull riding, bareback bronc riding, team roping, and barrel racing, among others, but they also do some camp events.

The thing I really love though, is that it follows a tradition of queer people taking traditionally masculine things and making them our own. Traditionally and despite that fact that I think they're very camp, rodeos are a very masculine thing and place. Many of the events find their origins in ranch work or 'cowboying', like working cattle or training horses, which arguably have a very masculine tradition. Think about the myth of the cowboy and the early American West or the Wild West. I would argue that conjures a very masculine set of ideas. There's a contentious history of women in rodeo that I don't know very well, but in my experience, rodeo is very masculine.

I also think that gay rodeo is a really wonderful instance of queer solidarity or a good reminder that queer people exist in rural America and take part in the culture as much as anyone else. You also get to think about one of my favorite Willie Nelson songs, "Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other."

#betweenthings talks

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roancowgirl · 19 days

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Wanted to share some art I recently finished up!

The New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association held a poster contest and I decided to enter with the only medium I’m decent at, which is leatherwork. Unfortunately it didn’t win, but it did place top three!

It took me about 40 hours, and is fully hand carved leather with acrylic paint for color. Overall I’m pleased with how it turned out, and am excited to put it on my wall. I’m thinking I’ll build it a leather frame.

The floral pattern is by Jim Linnell, used with permission

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latelyloxiv · 10 months

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hey for any of my fellow rodeo and western culture enjoyers out there you should check out the IGRA (International Gay Rodeo Association)

im hoping to attend and see one of their rodeos next year, but its always a breath of fresh air to know that there are queer focused rodeo sports outside of what you might just see on tv

also there's a pretty good documentary called Queens & Cowboys on youtube that talks about the pro lgbt subculture in rodeos that has existed for a long time. I'll drop a link to the docu and some other interesting videos that talk about the IGRA and other lgbt rodeos.

(but of course i encourage you do your own research if interested)

Queens & Cowboys Documentary [youtube link]

Welcome To The World Gay Rodeo Finals [youtube link]

How Is the Gay Rodeo Different? | Subcultured [youtube link]

#i don't participate in rodeo sports but i wonder how my interest in them could've flourished if i had known about this subculture sooner

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zeawesomebirdie · 9 months

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when is the gay rodeo??

Hello anon! These dates are pulled from the International Gay Rodeo Association's calendar! I've linked the websites associated with the various rodeos too for your searching pleasure ^.^

Bighorn Rodeo is September 15-17, 2023 in Las Vagas, Nevada

World Gay Rodeo Finals is October 27-29, 2023 in El Reno, Oklahoma

Then going into 2024 (remember that 2024 dates are subject to change):

Arizona Gay Rodeo is February 16-18, 2024 in Pheonix, Arizona

Texas Tradition Rodeo is April 12-14, 2024 in Denton, Texas

Rodeo in the Rock is April 26-28, 2024 in Little Rock, Arkansas

Bc I live in New York, the closest of any of these is Arkansas, but it's still one hell of a round trip train ticket, you know? Honestly a little homophobic that travel is so expensive 😔

#anon #im hoping that someday ill get to go to something #til then ill complain the whole time lmao #thanks for the ask by the way!#low key welcome to my latest fixation glad to have you here #also pinning this so that you def see it anon ily <3

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of-canes-and-manes · 8 months

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001: Back in the Saddle Again

After years of severe chronic illness, last week I got back on a horse for the first time in over a decade. I found riding to be more doable than I was expecting; it wasn’t easy by any meaning of the word, but it also wasn’t impossible, and even though those seven minutes in the saddle pushed my body to the limit, I would have been able to ride more later in the day if I had had a long enough break.

A brief history of my health before I get too ahead of myself:

I’ve been chronically ill since late 2016, when I started working and began needing to sleep upwards of 16 to 18 hours a day to feel rested at all. Over the years I progressively got worse, until summer of 2019 when I had to call out of work more than I could go in and I was either in bed, in the bathroom, or at work. When covid hit in 2020, I went from being able to leave bed for work to only being able to leave bed for the bathroom and the occasional doctor’s appointment, but due to the pandemic, even my appointments stopped before I had any sort of diagnosis besides fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

In November 2020 I had a near-death experience that resulted in getting my first ever blood transfusion; then I moved back home to my parents’ farm at the beginning of 2021. At the time it was an admission of defeat, but with the help of my parents, my health has slowly improved over the last two and a half years that I’ve spent on the farm, to the point where not only am I spending all day almost every day anywhere but my bed, I’ve able to leave the house upwards of three times a week and drive myself the majority of those times to boot.

As I’ve improved, I’ve experimented with doing more activity both physical and mental. For the first two years, physical activity was next to impossible and mental activity was all I could handle on a regular basis. Then I was blessed enough to get the first of two gender-affirming surgeries in December 2022, and since then I’ve been finding that while I’m now more physically capable, my mental energy has become unreliable.

While it’s of course a bit of a pain to be unable to read or write consistently, I’ve enjoyed the increased ability to bake, do canning, and get back to playing a musical instrument. This past spring I even planted a garden of pumpkins while learning to find adaptations for the various activities I have an interest in, and next year I’m hoping to plant more than just pumpkins!

I’ve spent the last eight months slowly but surely building up my physical activity to the point where when I had my second surgery in June, I was able to get back to my life with relative ease by mid-July. At this point in time, as long as I’m sitting down I can do whatever I’d like to, within reason, and if I need to walk somewhere, as long as I have my cane and take breaks every five to ten minutes, I can get where I need to go.

And how does this all come back to getting back in the saddle?

I had grown up going to a local stable with my siblings while our mom took lessons and cleaned stalls. My sisters and I were always more into riding than my brothers were, and once I hit puberty I stopped riding altogether as it, like most of my childhood passions, was too much for my dysphoria. Eventually, my sisters also stopped riding, though my mom continued on for years until she and my dad could afford to build a barn behind our house and bring her horses home. Since then, she’s slowly stopped riding as often as my dad’s health declined and our farm grew to include chickens, goats, and geese, but the horses have stayed a part of the daily chores all the while.

After stumbling across the International Gay Rodeo Association (a story for another time), and after realising that I am significantly more physically capable if I just have the right accommodations, I decided it was time to try riding again, just to see if I could do it. My mom was game to help me saddle up, so all we had to do was wait for the weather to cooperate.

I was able to borrow my mom’s tack and her old helmet, and with the help of an overturned bucket, I was up on top of the gentle giant Tiny Tim, a half-draft who gets along with everyone and everything. It’s been a while since he was last ridden; as such he was just as out of shape as I was, and I managed to last longer in our ride than he did!

We walked around the edge of the arena, first in one direction, then the other. My mom made a point to ask who was leading, me or Tim, and unfortunately my answer was a resounding “Tim is!” Then she asked us to do a serpentine across the arena, and I had such difficulty with that that she had to come out to walk with us. By then Tim was ready to be done and I was ready for a break, so I dismounted and led him back to the barn.

All in all, those seven minutes were some of the most wonderful I’ve had in a long time. Going forward, I hope to ride at least once a week for however long I can, and my only goal is to be able to go on trail rides in the future, no matter how long it takes.

May you have a peaceful day.

#of-canes-and-manes #queer equestrian #text post #first post #new blog

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