Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781496230195 |
| ISBN10: | 1496230191 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 282 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 596 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 5 photographs, 15 illustrations, index |
| 692 |
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Rainbow Cattle Co.
Liberation, Inclusion, and the History of Gay Rodeo
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date of Publication: 1 November 2024
Number of Volumes: Cloth Over Boards
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Short description:
Nicholas Villanueva, Jr., investigates the untold story of the founders of an organization that helped gay rodeo participants persevere through bigotry and discrimination in sport, fought a pandemic that ravaged the LGBTQ community, and created a sporting community that became an international family.
Long description:
Rainbow Cattle Co. tells the story of gay rodeo as an overlooked and important part of the LGBTQ liberation movement. Nicholas Villanueva, Jr., argues that the history of gay liberation has been oversimplified as a fight for sexual freedom in the major cities of the 1970s. But, as Villanueva reveals, the gay liberation movement thrived in rodeo in the U.S. West and in rural communities throughout America. LGBTQ rodeo athletes liberated themselves from the heteronormative social world of sport and upended stereotypes of sport and queer identity. Organizers, athletes, and spectators fought to protect their rights to openly participate in sports, and their activism was pivotal in the fight against AIDS.
Rainbow Cattle Co. reveals a history of gay liberation through rodeo, which from the mid-1970s provided a safe space where LGBTQ athletes could focus on their sport and evolved into a highly successful philanthropic organization by the end of the twentieth century. This intersectional study of LGBTQ athletes, heteronormativity, Western history, and sport builds on scholarship from ethnic studies, critical sports studies, sociology, and history.
Rainbow Cattle Co. reveals a history of gay liberation through rodeo, which from the mid-1970s provided a safe space where LGBTQ athletes could focus on their sport and evolved into a highly successful philanthropic organization by the end of the twentieth century. This intersectional study of LGBTQ athletes, heteronormativity, Western history, and sport builds on scholarship from ethnic studies, critical sports studies, sociology, and history.
“The story of the International Gay Rodeo Association is particularly fascinating as it evolved from an athletic association to an activist community. The testimonials of cowboys and cowgirls add to the humanity of the story. . . . This is quite obviously a gender, Western, and cultural history. But this is also a history of sports in America and how it shaped American mainstream life.”—Sunu Kodumthara, professor of history at Southwestern Oklahoma State University
