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Cowboy classic ‘Red River’s’ gay subtext runs even deeper than that homoerotic pistol-comparing scene

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with cowboy romance A Strange Way Of Life now streaming on Netflix, we’re revisiting 1948’s queer-coded Western classic, Red River.Westerns have always had a complicated relationship with queerness. It’s a genre that for centuries has embodied, and often outwardly expressed, a very traditional worldview around masculinity, gender roles, and the binary of good versus evil.
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Entertainment retro record Cowboy Before Orville Peck’s latest cover, this swingin’, cowboy-lovin’ ballad had a life of its own
Brokeback Mountain certainly popularized the idea of a closeted cattlehand in the mainstream, one songwriter picked up on the subtext more than 20 years earlier.The man was performer and musicologist Ned Sublette, who left no room for interpretation when he penned “Cowboys Are Secretly, Frequently (Fond of Each Other)” in 1981.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.A waltzing, mid-tempo country tune begins, “Well, there’s many a strange impulse out on the plains of West Texas / There’s many a young boy who feels things he can’t comprehend.” Later declaring: “No, a small town don’t like it when a cowboy has feelings for men.”Now, queer country crooner Orville Peck is making headlines for his celebratory cover of the track. But its story began many moons ago.Although Sublette identifies as straight, he connected with the solitary feeling of being “different in any way” in a small town.
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