REAL-LIFE COWBOYS Praise Brokeback Mountain
REAL-LIFE COWBOYS Praise Brokeback Mountain
#0REAL-LIFE COWBOYS Praise Brokeback Mountain
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:33pm
Yep. From yesterday's Casper Wyoming Star Tribune.
Rootin' tootin' snippet:
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Gay cowboys welcome the arrival of 'Brokeback Mountain'
By BRANDON GRIGGS
Salt Lake Tribune Monday, January 02, 2006
Like many gay Utahns, Ritchie Olsen has been bursting with anticipation over "Brokeback Mountain," the acclaimed film about a secret love affair between two Wyoming cowboys. After all, the movie could almost be the story of his life.
Olsen grew up in Neola, Utah, a conservative town of about 500 people on the southern edge of the Uintas. His family ran a small cattle ranch, where Olsen spent much of his youth on a horse. Although Olsen struggled with his attraction to men, like the characters in the film he kept quiet and married a local girl, his true nature stifled by community pressure and his own fear.
"I didn't feel like I had any other choice," said the 32-year-old, who didn't come out of the closet until he divorced his wife 18 months later and moved away. "I was expected to fit a certain image, and I did. It created a lot of anxiety."
That's why for Olsen and countless other Westerners, "Brokeback Mountain" is an event film and a hot-button topic. Besides being a rare Hollywood drama about gay romance, it may be the first high-profile movie to address homosexuality within a group rarely associated with it: the iconic cowboys of the American West. These onscreen lovers aren't San Francisco hairdressers, they're stoic Marlboro men.
Gay cowboys welcome the arrival of 'Brokeback Mountain'
#1re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:35pm
And let's all hang out at www.gaycowboycentral.com:
"Whether you are a gay cowboy or a cowboy admirer, it's time for you to try our gay cowboy personals."
Yeeeeeee-ha!
GayCowboyCentral.com
#4re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:41pm
And this here young'un's fer PapaLovesmambo. He's into webcam!
#5re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:47pmGay cowboys are HOT! And, it sure is fun to two step with a man! I've always wanted to go to the gay rodeo.
#6re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:48pmWe should have a BWW field trip to the gay rodeo...how much fun would THAT be?!?! A few years ago, a bunch of us from the San Francisco gay.com chatroom did it, and it was a BLAST.
Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you.
Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:11pmI'm impressed with the size of his buckle.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
cheezedoodle
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#8re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:16pm" REAL-LIFE COWBOYS " You mean that guy I picked up at the Eagle in the fringe chaps was a REAL cowboy? Who would a think it!
"Oh Link...your pork is ready..." - Edna Turnblad
#9re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:18pmUm...I think that was my boyfriend.
#10re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:20pm
Oh, wait. Did you say "fringe chaps"?
Never mind...
#11re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:28pmRoad trip! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee HAW!
cheezedoodle
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#12re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:31pmI know PJ! That fringe just got all in the way!
"Oh Link...your pork is ready..." - Edna Turnblad
#13re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:32pmWe call her "The Bottom with the Fringe on Her Surry"
#14re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:35pmBring back Urban Cowboy!
"I'm learning to dig deep down inside and find the truth within myself and put that out. I think what we identify with in popular music more than anything else is when someone just shares a truth that we can relate to. That's what I'm searching for in my music." - Ron Bohmer
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
#15re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:07pmPhantom--we're talking about REAL gay cowboys here--not CHORUS boys...
#16re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:08pm
Although I'm sure phanty is yummy in a cowboy hat and spurs.
And nothing else.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#17re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:13pmwhoo-wheee! i say i would like a roll in the hay wit one of dem boys!
#18re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:14pmConnection, a club that used to be THE gay club in Nashville, used to have a "country bar." It was always fun to see two guys in Wranglers and cowboy hats two-stepping.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#19re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:21pm
Maybe the Boys of BroadwayWorld should send a message to the Boys of GayCowboyCentral.
What should our message to the gay cowboys be?
#20re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:18am"Save a bull, ride an urban cowboy!"
#21re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:21am
Now let's all admire Matt Cavenaugh's chest:
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HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
#22re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:22am
*ahem*
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
Updated On: 1/5/06 at 12:22 AM
#23re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:30amGood grief those pics never stop AMAZING me.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#24re: Real Life Gay Cowboys Praise Brokeback
Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:33am
Y'all would like Tulsa...
They grow 'em big there.
Belt buckles, that is.
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