Gay cowboy movies

Westerns Were Queer Way Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’

The Wild West, according to Hollywood, is a sun-scorched place of isolation and passion. Cowboys wander on horseback, some faster than others when sending bullets out from their guns. Strange Way of Life, a modern short by director Pedro Almodóvar, brings Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal together as cowboys and ex-lovers who confront their past and their present. The premise can make audiences think back to Brokeback Mountain, which forces two men apart, allowing them to escape and adopt in limited retreats. However, not even this production introduced queerness with cowboys. Westerns indulge in homosocial environments where women are hardly allowed into the close bonds the men have with each other. While the Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal grand romance made subtext finally text, there is a history of queerness in the movies about the Wild West, from black-and-white oldies to erotic tales of free love, and everything in between.

What Were the Queer Undertones in Montgomery Clift & James Stewart's Classic Westerns?

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‘Bros’ and the Legacy of Gay Cowboy Movies

Opinion:

I have a confession to make: I don’t like Billy Eichner. As a New Yorker and a homosexual, I perceive this may be akin to sacrilege. There is no specific reason for my derision, either; or perhaps there are too many tiny ones that they all just evade me and I don’t have the wherewithal or desire to try and find them. It’s the same way that people seem to dislike Anne Hathaway. She’s never done anything remotely cancelable, and Mr. Eichner has never wronged me in any way, but here we are.

Eichner is measurably funny, his political views probably align with mine, and he loves musical theater. By all accounts, he should be one of my favorite celebrities. He even just co-wrote and starred in a historic queer movie: Bros, the first gay rom-com produced and distributed by a major American studio released in theaters.

But indulge me, for here is a quick and unbiased review of Bros by a casual moviegoer: the movie is okay. It’s pretty good, actually. Its title is silly and uninspired, but it is uproariously funny at times; sweet and moving at others. As

So About That Gay Cowboy Movie Starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke…

Pedro Pascal is going to observe a man about a horse. Actually, you can scratch the “about a horse” part.

Riding the range in the Wild, Wild West, his cowboy rides into town, hitches his stallion, and walks right into the sheriff’s office. The lawman — he’s named Jake, and played by Ethan Hawke — knows this stranger, Silva. The two lock eyes, and the faintest of smiles breaks across Jake’s face. They knew each other, a long, long time ago. The duo decide to catch up over a drink. Silva reminds his old friend that they used to a cocktail a lot together, help in the day. Jake says he doesn’t liquid any more. It led to too much “madness.” Silva says it wasn’t mad at all. They stare into each other’s eyes some more. The temperature in the frontier jailhouse seems to be rising. Get a room, you two!

Except they’ve already got one, what with a bed organism right over there and all, and the outlaw is slugging whiskey and the sheriff is looking over his friend with the most lustful of looks. Jake comes up behind Silva and kisses him on the

Gay Themes

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There was some discussion about same-sex attracted themes in Adios Sabata on the SWWB a while ago. Personally I’m not sure what to think about this clip except that Yul Brunner and some other guys wear costumes out of Village People’s wardrobe. ;D

But I came to assess other spaghetti westerns with obvious gay characters. The most obvious is of course the gay cowboy gang in Django Kill! Also Nino Castelnuovo in Massacre Time and my favorite gay couple in sw’s: George Hilton and Klaus Kinski who contain very twisted relationship in Ruthless Four. Some acquire even suggested that there’s something sexual between Nino and El Chuncho in Bullet for the General.

There must be others too but can’t remember more right now. What complete you think of the subject? Why did they include so many lgbtq+ themes in spaghetti westerns?

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I don’t consider they were being deliberately gay (apart from Django kill of course). I think the costumes only appear gay retrospectively 30-40 years later. I intend, look at what plain people were wearing in the 60’s and 70’s! William Bergers hid