The Wild, Wild History of Gay Cowboy Movies (and more)

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Well all know Brokeback Mountain as "The Gay Cowboy Movie", but the truth is, Westerns have been gay or had gay subtext for a long long time before it! Come learn with me about the gay Westerns of yesteryear and the sociopolitical circumstances that made them what they were.

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Sources:

Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II by Thomas Doherty

Hollywood’s Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies film in America by Jonathan Kirshner

The End of American Film Censorship by Kristen Hunt https://daily.jstor.org/end-american-...

Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys (1968) by Gary Comenas https://warholstars.org/lonesome_cowb...

How Homo Can Hollywood Be? Remaking Queer Authenticity from To Wong Foo to Brokeback Mountain by Alex Evans

The Queer Frontier by Blake Allmendinger

John Wayne and the Queer Frontier: Deconstructions of the Classic Cowboy Narrative during the Vietnam War by Christopher Le Coney and Zoe Trodd

You Know I Ain’t Queer…: Queering Mediation and Sexuality in Midnight Cowboy and Brokeback Mountain by Isabell B. Johansen

Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires and Gay Cowboys by Barbara Mennel

“I Ain’t Queer”: Love, Masculinity and History in Brokeback Mountain by Leigh Boucher and Sarah Pinto

Queering Classic Hollywood: Lesbianism And The Western - The Case Of “Johnny Guitar”
By Elyce Rae Helford https://the-take.com/read/queering-cl...

The 1971 western that celebrated male intimacy by Sean McGeady https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...

Framing Brokeback Mountain: How the Popular Press Corralled the “Gay Cowboy Movie” by Brenda Cooper & Edward C. Pease

Not a Gay Cowboy Movie? Brokeback Mountain and the Importance of Genre by Erika Spohrer

Films:

The Kiss (1896)

Wings (1927)

der Fuehrer's Face (1943)

Red River (1948)

High Noon (1952)

Calamity Jane (1953)

Johnny Guitar (1954)

Lonesome Cowboys (1968)

Fortune and Men’s Eyes (1969)

Song of the Loon (1970)

Zachariah (1971)

Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)