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Gay Cowboy
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The mythos of the American Old West, with its aura of ruggedness, danger and adventure, has appealed to many people over the years, including gay men. While they don't have quite as many stereotypical gay associations as sailors and leather-clad bikers, cowboys are nevertheless an important part of macho gay male iconography. It's more about the look and feel of the cowboy than the facts, so these men can be found in The Wild West, but also in a Space Western, Cattle Punk, New Old West, Samurai Cowboy, or any other cowboy-flavored work. This trope covers gay or bisexual men who are Western-flavored characters (ranchers, cattle hands, rodeo performer, and country singers) or just fans of the genre. This is almost always a flavor of Manly Gay. |
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Jinny Hex, Jonah's great-great-granddaughter and a member of Young Justice (2019), takes after Jonah and is a lesbian, though she exists in the present day, so it's only in concept and she isn't defined by the rejection and isolation of this trope. | |
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Brokeback Mountain is famous for being the "gay cowboy movie", even though they're actually bisexual shepherds. Also, it's not set in the old West. | |
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Lil Nas X got famous from his country trap song "Old Town Road" which featured him dressed as a cowboy, and he came out as gay in 2019. | |
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In Sunset Riders, Billy (who has a stylish victory pose) is the only character who looks away from the saloon girls, after the Smith Brothers boss fight. Of course, he may just be bashful or modest around the ladies, or he may be asexual. | |
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Danny Brady from Shadow Unit has overtones of this. | |
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Goodbye Chains. Though, technically, none of the gay characters are proper cowboys. | |
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Smithers from The Simpsons a couple times; In "El Viaje Misterioso De Nuestro Jomer" he shows up at the chilli festival wearing a pink and white cowboy outfit with a neon sign on the back saying "Hot Nashville Nights". In The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour segment of "The Simpsons Spin Off Showcase", he dresses as a cowboy and sings about whipping it good with a liquorice whip. |
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In the Joshua Jackson film Lone Star State of Mind a.k.a Cowboys and Idiots, Earl's best friend is Jimbo, who is the stereotypical Texan cowboy mechanic, only that he's gay and there's a subplot throughout the film of him trying to get a date. He dates Earl's father's killer Yeah, it's that kind of movie. | |
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Sir Hammerlock of Borderlands 2 is gay and wears an outfit which is a mixture of a scholar and a cowboy. | |
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Roswell, New Mexico: Isobel. Gender Flipped and bisexual, but she's a queer woman with a cowboy aesthetic. Bisexual alien cowboy Michael Guerin. |
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Jude the Dude in MadWorld is heavily implied to be one of these, with his boss arena featuring posters proclaiming him to be "The Brokest Back in the West", with one conversation between the game's Combat Commentators describing him as the "ambiguously gay cowboy!" Originally, his death scene was supposed to end with him being finished off by Jack stealing his guns, shoving them up Jude's ass, and firing away until he explodes (this was changed to the final game to an equally intense but less suggestive Multiple Gunshot Death). | |
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The Zorro parody film Zorro: The Gay Blade, in which Don Diego breaks his leg and his camp brother Bunny takes over. | |
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In The Last Rune series there are the minor characters Davis and Mitchell, two gay ranchers who have been together for over twenty five years. | |
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On King of the Hill, Dale's estranged father is a rodeo-cowboy (it's a gay rodeo). When he tries to come out to Dale, Dale believes that he is confessing to being a secret agent for the government and that his "partner" is of the Buddy Cop variety. This is partly because Dale had always been under the impression that his father was a real ladykiller who Really Gets Around with beautiful women, and partly because Dale is Dale. | |
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Homestuck codes Equius as a Bisexual Cowboy through his Testosterone Poisoning, keeping of a milk-bearing animal, aggressive drinking of milk and, most blatantly, his Ennio Morricone Musical Pastiche Leitmotif. And as the Sagittarius troll, he's also thematically associated with horses. | |
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Tiger King: In many of the photos shown of them, Joe and his first husband Brian certainly look like gay cowboys. Downplayed Trope, though, because neither of them was actually a cowboy — they were just boys in Texas with a penchant for cowboy clothing. | |
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Revolver Ocelot in the Metal Gear series is a Spaghetti Western-themed villain who turns out to have been in love with a guy. | |
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Alex dresses up like a sexy one in Noah's Arc to surprise Trey. | |
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The Goodies had the Rhinestone Cowperson in the episode "The Goodies Almost Live". | |
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Parodied in one The New Yorker cartoon: two senile old cowboys are sitting on a porch, and one yells to the other, "Were we gay?" | |
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While Taiji Sawada was likely heterosexual (or at most bisexual or bicurious) in Real Life, he attained the status of Sex God by combining the cowboy and Leather Man / Badass Biker aesthetic onstage (especially with X Japan, but in his solo works as well) and in photoshoots and the like. | |
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Tick from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert dresses like a cowboy when trying to seem straight in front of his estranged son. | |
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Referenced in The Drew Carey Show when Oswald decides to check out a new bar where the dress code is cowboy gear. Drew lets him go, figuring this is something he'd just have to learn the hard way. | |
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Jonah Hex: In the 2000 series, Hex faces off against a Gay Cowboy who goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the town where his partner was killed. A bit of Deliberate Values Dissonance in the New 52 All-Star Western, where Hex, transported to the Present Day, takes offence at being called a cowboy, claiming that they're all gay. Jinny Hex, Jonah's great-great-granddaughter and a member of Young Justice (2019), takes after Jonah and is a lesbian, though she exists in the present day, so it's only in concept and she isn't defined by the rejection and isolation of this trope. |
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3:10 to Yuma (2007), where Charlie "Princess" is almost outright stated to be gay (especially for his boss, Ben Wade). Fanon explains Ben himself to be gay as well, though the film only shows him as attracted to women (he sleeps with one). | |
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A Saturday Night Live skit features Elton John as a cowboy, riding into town on a unicorn after mistakenly believing the local bartender (Bill Hader) could make mojitos. He flirts with another, very confused cowboy (Jason Sudeikis) and angrily rejects a flirtatious, clueless saloon girl (Kristen Wiig). At the end, Hader and Sudeikis' characters turn out to be in a relationship with each other to boot. | |
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Also popular in Spaghetti Westerns with the Sissy Villain type: Django Kill, Sabata and The Grand Duel have flamboyantly gay baddies. | |
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Joel Miller from LISA: The Pointless wears a cowboy outfit modeled after El Topo's, with a face inspired by Lee Van Cleef, and he's been confirmed gay by the developers. Some of his moves in battle even have the potential to fluster male enemies. | |
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Masked country singer Orville Peck has identified himself as gay. His image, lyrics and music videos frequently feature queered versions of cowboy and western tropes. Perhaps not surprisingly, he has also covered "Cowboys Are Frequently..." | |
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One arc of Garth Ennis's "Marvel Knights" series of The Punisher featured a gay sheriff in a modern-day Western story. | |
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In 6teen, Jonesy decides to spend Valentine's Day holding an auction to win a date with him. However, he forgot to specify "girls only". Once a man dressed as a cowboy places a bid, Jonesy has to start bidding on himself to avoid having to go on a date with him. The bidding war lasts until Nikki decides to bail him out by bidding an insane amount of money (on the condition that she doesn't have to pay it, of course). | |
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One of the victims in the Criminal Minds episode "In Heat". | |
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The South Park episode "Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls" features a film festival, and Cartman's famous line about gay cowboys eating pudding. Matt and Trey actually said before Brokeback Mountain came out that "if they eat pudding, we're going to sue". | |
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Warren from the Mercy Thompson series was a gay cowboy before he became a werewolf. | |
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Family Guy has used this stereotype a few times: One cutaway gag refers to the famous quote "it's legal so long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses". Two horses are waiting outside a tent wondering why their masters are late getting up that morning. One horse, overcome by curiosity, looks inside. And is indeed frightened by what he sees. In the season five episode "It Takes a Village idiot and I Married One", Peter sings a song about Cowboy Gay Sex (on DVD and cable, it's "butt sex") inspired by Brokeback Mountain. |
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The Man in the High Castle: Ed runs into a gay cowboy while visiting a saloon in the Neutral territories, which are explicitly New Old West. He was a grifter instead of a rancher, but he did wear a cowboy hat. | |
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