If you thought that the American frontier cowboy lifestyle was all robberies and gun-slinging, you’d only be partially right as it was also super, super gay.
TikTok might be full to the brim with questionable trends and prison cooking videos, but it is also home to experts like Abbey Sharp who are constantly offering noteworthy bites of information. You just have to know where to look.
Though some in the modern world would lead you to believe that LGBTQ+ people arose only recently, the community has a long and often ignored history. From the Ancient Greeks to Vikings, South Asia’s Hijra communities to a gay man basically winning World War 2, it’s time for a Queer history lesson.
On the chalkboard this week are American cowboys, who have been popularised through films like The Searchers, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Rio Bravo. Brokeback Mountain is maybe the …