Yee-haw! Gay cowboys are taking over this colonial city, forging a community and finding freedom
A Strange Way Of Life to the Hallmark Channel’s show Ride, gay cowboys are having a moment. They’re also heating things up south of the border.Every year, tens of thousands of gays descend upon the Mexican coastal city of Puerto Vallarta for fun in the sun and wild nights full of debauchery.
But PV isn’t the only Mexican town that plays host to gays looking for a little rendezvous. The colonial city Zacatecas, which is about nine hours east of the Pacific Ocean, attracts hundreds of men from across Mexico and the U.S.
for its annual gathering of gay vaqueros–or cowboys. They share traditional Mexican food, folk dances and crown a cowboy king.The Los Angeles Times recently spotlighted this phenomenon, interviewing multiple participants who found their calling within the subculture.
Cowboy fetishes are common in the gay community, with the prevalence of assless chaps and fascination with old-school, country Western masculinity.
