![]() Every quiet night around a campfire on the open plain, every tense stare-down between stand-off rivals can feel charged with unspoken sexual tension. ![]() Yes, the frontier has long felt like a conduit for repressed homosexuality. It’s all such a put-on that it’s easy to sense something gay just beneath the surface. Traditionally, the Western is thought of as the realm of male bravado-hyper-masculine, tough-talkin’, pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps type of guys-but all that “yeehaw’ posturing is exactly why so many cowboys, gunslingers, and outlaws in films lend themselves to queer readings. Well, the thing is, the genre has pretty much always been gay. Now, you may ask, “What in tarnation is going on here?” What’s in the water that, suddenly, it feels like the zeitgeist is chock-full of gay Westerns? These days, it feels like queer cowboys (cow- folks?) are everywhere. They’re at film festivals, they’re on the radio, they’re on Netflix-and there’s even more on the way.
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