This article about the history of the cowboy is from an issue of THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW. It's written by Patricia Nell Warren, author of the seminal gay novel THE FRONT RUNNER (among others).

THE POLITICAL DUST STORM kicked up by the Oscar-winning film BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, however predictable, found right-wingers railing that yet another symbol of American “family values,” the cowboy, was being desecrated. A typical Christian blogger screamed: “Now they’re out to destroy the American legend of the cowboy. God help us, and John Wayne forgive us!” In Congress, senators from the sagebrush states pushed a resolution declaring July 22 as “National Day of the American Cowboy.”

But the movie also pushed a button for professional rodeo, with some contestants stepping forward to assure the media that, in all their years around the arenas, they never met a real-life Jack Twist.

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