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Gay cowboys now feel at home on the range
0 Comments | AFP, January, 2006
CHANDLER, United States (AFP) — Many gay cowboys are grateful that award-winning "Brokeback Mountain" has broken a sexual taboo, though not all are hiding away in the American Wild West.
About 100 gay cowboys and lesbian cowgirls took part in the gay rodeo at Chandler in the Arizona desert during the weekend.
For years such rodeos were shunned and even run out of some towns. Now the unorthodox event is a welcomed part of the cowboy diary, though many participants have lived their own tales like "Brokeback Mountain", which won three Golden Globes on Monday and is now in the frontline for the Oscars.
Kurt McGregor, a spokesman for the Road Runner gay rodeo, said there were firefighters, doctors, construction workers and other professionals among the members....
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