REAL-LIFE COWBOYS Praise Brokeback Mountain

[PalJoey]

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'

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 04:33 PM

[PalJoey]

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

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 04:35 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:37pm

This one's for RobbieJ:

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:40pm

And this one's for Namo:

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:41pm

And this here young'un's fer PapaLovesmambo. He's into webcam!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:47pm

Gay cowboys are HOT! And, it sure is fun to two step with a man! I've always wanted to go to the gay rodeo.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:48pm

We 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.

[robbiej]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:11pm

I'm impressed with the size of his buckle.

[cheezedoodle]

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!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:18pm

Um...I think that was my boyfriend.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:20pm

Oh, wait. Did you say "fringe chaps"?

Never mind...

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:28pm

Road trip! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee HAW!

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:31pm

I know PJ! That fringe just got all in the way!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:32pm

We call her "The Bottom with the Fringe on Her Surry"

[Phantom2]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:35pm

Bring back Urban Cowboy!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:07pm

Phantom--we're talking about REAL gay cowboys here--not CHORUS boys...

[jrb_actor]

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]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:13pm

whoo-wheee! i say i would like a roll in the hay wit one of dem boys!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:14pm

Connection, 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.

[PalJoey]

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?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:18am

"Save a bull, ride an urban cowboy!"

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:21am

Now let's all admire Matt Cavenaugh's chest:

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:22am

*ahem*

Updated On: 1/5/06 at 12:22 AM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:30am

Good grief those pics never stop AMAZING me.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:33am

Y'all would like Tulsa...

They grow 'em big there.

Belt buckles, that is.