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Gay rodeo history
First posted Aug 21, Last update Apr
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For more items of interest see the Timeline of interesting facts on the Gay Rodeo History Site. International Gay Rodeo Association Rodeo Production Guidebook.
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Grand Entry at the Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo, put on by the Colorado Gay Rodeo Association in Bull rider at the Atlantic Stampede, put on by the Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association The International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA), founded in , [1] is the sanctioning body for gay rodeos held throughout the United States and Canada. They are the largest group coordinating rodeo.
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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 Scofield , historians of gender and sexuality in the American West.
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The Voices of Gay Rodeo online exhibit was developed as part of the Gay Rodeo Oral History Project. Created by Dr. Rebecca Scofield in with the aid of a University of Idaho Seed Grant and expanded in with a Whiting Foundation Public Humanities Project grant, this project has sought to preserve and share the history of gay rodeo as it has evolved over the past 45 years. In.
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In , Phil Ragsdale [1] , who was Emperor I of the Silver Dollar Court in Reno, conceived of a gay rodeo as a fundraising effort for the Court. Ragsdale approached the Washoe County Fairgrounds manager and the earliest date the facility was available was October 2,
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Though the International Gay Rodeo Association was officially founded back in the mids, the history of gay rodeos goes back even further.
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Associate Professor of History; Chair of the Department of History, University of Idaho. Rebecca Scofield has received funding from The Whiting Foundation for the Gay Rodeo Oral History Project.
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Our History and Purpose Gay Rodeo had its beginnings in at the National Reno Gay Rodeo in Nevada. Over the next eight years local rodeo associations were formed in Colorado, Texas, California, and Arizona. In , these four Gay Rodeo Associations along with Oklahoma founded the IGRA.
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