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The west was always queer. Much more so than you’d think. From unapologetic lesbians paving their own path to trans folks looking for freedom to the gay cowboys just searching for love, beneath the sands and dry earth lay the stories of LGBTQ folks waiting to be remembered. But while that history is full of love and power for some, it is also a legacy of pain, struggle and the ramifications of settler colonialism for others. Come learn with me!

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Sources

Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West by Rebecca Scoffield

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey

Black Cowboys In The American West: On The Range, On The Stage, Behind The Badge by Bruce A Glasrud and MIchael N Searles

Rewriting the Gold Rush: Twain, Harte and Homosociality by Peter Stoneley

The Lost Pardner by Badger Clark

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Gay LA by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons

Sexuality, Gender, and Identity in Great Plains History and Myth by Peter Boag

Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past by Peter Boag

New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story By Winifred Gallagher

Queer Cowboys And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature By C. Packard

Straight Shooters, Stainless-Steel Stories, and Cowboy Codes: The Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World by Christopher Le Coney and Zoe Trodd

Macho Men and the Queer Imaginary: A Critique of the Selected Gay ‘Colonial’ Representations of Homomasculinity by Theo Sonnekus

Queer country: Rural Lesbian and Gay Lives by David Bell and Gill Valentine

Rodeo: Real Gay Cowboys and Brokeback Mountain – Patricia Nell Warren
https://stillblueproject.wordpress.co...

Gay Culture: Still of the Wild Frontier by Patricia Nell Warren
https://omnilogos.com/gay-culture-sti...

Within the Shadow of the Cowboy: Myths and Realities of the Old American West by Katherine Lamb

Go West Young Man, Go East Young Woman: Searching for the Trans in Western Gender History by Peter Boag

The Indigenous Erotics of Riding Bareback, or, the West Has Always Been Queer by Lisa Tatonetti

Steers, Queers, and Manifest Destiny: Representing the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century Texas by Kim Emery

Claiming Lesbian History: The Romance between Fact and Fiction by Linda Garber

Lesbian Rangers on a Queer Frontier by Jennifer MacLatchy

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals By Saidiya Hartman

Lonely hunters : an oral history of lesbian and gay southern life, 1948-1968 by James Thomas Sears

Desire, Settler Colonialism, and the Racialized Cowboy by Beenash Jafri

“Homos on the Range”: How gay was the West? By Jana Bommersbach
https://truewestmagazine.com/old-west...

Video:

Orville Peck- C’mon, Baby Cry MV

Life on the Circle Ranch in California, 1912

The Lavender Cowboy by Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets