Exploring the Queer History of the Old West... Yeehaw

Try Sundance Now free for 30 days by going to https://www.sundancenow.com/ and use promo code KAZROWE! 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! Learn more about the First Nations Development Institute: https://www.firstnations.org/ Another great place to support if you're able: https://www.navajowaterproject.org Donate to the Native American Rights Fund: https://www.narf.org/?_ga=2.153463224.1880766365.1645120585-22316839.1645120585 Learn about the indigenous folks of LA: https://gabrielinotribe.org/ https://www.tongvapeople.org/ Learn about the Native American Heritage Association: https://www.naha-inc.org/ The Beyond Buckskin Buy Native list: http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html Expose yourself to Native media: https://visionmakermedia.org/ https://nativeamericatoday.com/ Learn more about Native history/cultures from these awesome TikTok creators: navajorocks, diamond_dog74, notoriouscree, indigenouszane Video elements by Videezy.com. Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KazRowe I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kaz.rowe Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Read my webcomic: https://www.cunningfire.com/ Catch it on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/cunning-fire Line Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cunning-fire/list?title_no=59016 Edited using DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 and the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/keyboard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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.com/essays-life-writing/warren/ Gay Culture: Still of the Wild Frontier by Patricia Nell Warren https://omnilogos.com/gay-culture-still-of-wild-frontier/ 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-homosexuality-homos-on-the-range/ 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