![]() The Good, t he bad, and the ugly the erotic, and the strange, this dirty dozen movies shows how the West was won by the queers. ![]() we’ve decided to follow down that dusty old run through cinema history and call attention to 12 notable Westerns-from 1948 to today-that showcase the genre at its gayest. ![]() Over the decades, many filmmakers have leaned into the Western’s latent queer appeal-whether intentionally or not-dating all the way back to the genre’s first golden era in Hollywood. Every quiet night around a campfire on the open plain, every tense stare-down between stand-off rivals can feel charged with unspoken sexual tension. Yes, the frontier has long felt like a conduit for repressed homosexuality. It’s all such a put-on that it’s easy to sense something gay just beneath the surface. Traditionally, the Western is thought of as the realm of male bravado-hyper-masculine, tough-talkin’, pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps type of guys-but all that “yeehaw’ posturing is exactly why so many cowboys, gunslingers, and outlaws in films lend themselves to queer readings. Well, the thing is, the genre has pretty much always been gay. Now, you may ask, “What in tarnation is going on here?” What’s in the water that, suddenly, it feels like the zeitgeist is chock-full of gay Westerns? These days, it feels like queer cowboys (cow- folks?) are everywhere. They’re at film festivals, they’re on the radio, they’re on Netflix-and there’s even more on the way.
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