Campy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that straddles the urban and rural, providing space to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the US West. Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo brings together over a decade of research by Elyssa Ford and Rebecca … Continue reading Queer Cowfolx and the History of Gay Rodeo: Q&A with Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, authors of “Slapping Leather”