Queer Cowboys

Queer Cowboys
Author: C. Packard
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137078227

Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds? Evidence from the best-known Western writers and artists of the post-Civil War period - Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, George Catlin - as well as now-forgotten writers, illustrators, and photographers, suggest that in the period before the word 'homosexual' and its synonyms were invented, same-sex intimacy and erotic admiration were key aspects of a masculine code. These males-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners, Indian vaqueros defined themselves by excluding femininity and the cloying ills of domesticity, while embracing what Roosevelt called 'strenuous living' with other bachelors in the relative 'purity' of wilderness conditions. Queer Cowboys recovers this forgotten culture of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate camaraderie in fiction, photographs, illustrations, song lyrics, historical ephemera, and theatrical performances.

Queer Cinema

Queer Cinema
Author: Barbara Mennel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231850204

Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by highlighting key films that emerged at historical turning points throughout the twentieth century. Barbara Mennel traces the representation of gays and lesbians from the sexual liberation movements of the roaring 1920s in Berlin to the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City and the emergence of queer activism and film in the early 1990s. She explains early tropes of queerness, such as the boarding school or the vampire, and describes the development of camp from 1950s Hollywood to underground art of the late 1960s in New York City. Mennel concludes with an exploration of the contemporary mainstreaming of gay and lesbian films and global queer cinema. Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires and Gay Cowboys not only offers an introduction to a gay and lesbian film history, but also contributes to an academic discussion about queer subversion of mainstream film.

We All Loved Cowboys

We All Loved Cowboys
Author: Carol Bensimon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2018-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781945492167

Two women take a road trip through Brazil in an exploration of identity, desire, and the limitations and possibilities of female sexuality.

Queer Love in Color

Queer Love in Color
Author: Jamal Jordan
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1984857649

A photographic celebration of the love and relationships of queer people of color by a former New York Times multimedia journalist “Thank you, Jamal Jordan, for showing the world what true love looks like.”—Billy Porter Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC identities today, and honors an inclusive vision of love, affection, and family across the spectrum of gender, race, and age.

Queer Dance

Queer Dance
Author: Clare Croft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0199377332

Queer Dance challenges social norms and enacts queer coalition across the LGBTQ community. The book joins forces with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial work to consider how bodies are forces of social change.

Queer Popular Culture

Queer Popular Culture
Author: T.
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-02-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1349290114

Articles cover many aspects of contemporary culture, including the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of queer representations of blackness. This accessible volume offers useful analytical tools that will help readers make sense of the problems and promise of queer pop culture.

The Cowboy Hero

The Cowboy Hero
Author: William W. Savage
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1979
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780806119205

Analyzes the modern myth of the cowboy as it appears in movies, advertising, the rodeo, and fiction, and gauges its effect on American thought

Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past

Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past
Author: Peter Boag
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520949951

Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing—for both men and women—was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased? Citing a cultural moment at the turn of the twentieth century—when the frontier ended, the United States entered the modern era, and homosexuality was created as a category—Boag shows how the American people, and thus the American nation, were bequeathed an unambiguous heterosexual identity.