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"I cannot believe how many people I come across that have never even heard of gay rodeo — its almost a 50-year tradition now," said Aurora Gayheart, Miss New Mexico

The misguided assumption that rural America is hopelessly backward and bigoted erases centuries of same-sex relationships in rural communities.

The presentation of queer, rural rodeoers refutes the lazy dichotomy of the urban queer progressive versus the rural homophobic conservative.

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