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Gay Rodeos, Western Wear, and Unresolved Tensions in 21st-Century North America Cowboy Culture and Esthetics
No full textIn the 1970s, activists founded the International Gay Rodeo Association in the North American Midwest, disrupting traditional heteronormative and hypermasculine norms within cowboy culture. In this research, we critically analyze the intersections of cowboy manifestations and twenty-first century LGBTQ+ communities in North American queer cowboy portrayals via the gay rodeo. Specifically, we examine how the gay rodeo creates space for LGBTQ+ style, fashion, and dress embodiments in relation to the longstanding, heteronormative Wild West hero of the late 1800s. We analyzed two types of primary sources: the 2014 film Queens & Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo and social media content from the official IGRA along with ethnographic work conducted at gay rode events. Using critical discourse analysis and the concept of articulation, we explored the nuanced meanings conveyed through these media. Through our analysis, we identified numerous emergent tensions from the gay rodeo’s twenty-first century representations in their documentary, social media, and live rodeos. Our observations centered on the overarching intersections of gender-and-sexuality-expression-tensions. Specifically, we observed notions of (a) disrupting and embracing layered, unsettled gender binaries, (b) ambiguous identity entanglements, and (c) camped-up traditions via moments and movements
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No full textExhibitions and Events, Spring 2025
No full textListing of exhibitions, events, and lectures held at the University Galleries at Illinois State University.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/cfaug/1025/thumbnail.jp
Convocation Recital: February 18, 2025
No full textCenter for the Performing Arts
February 18, 2025
Tuesday Morning
11:00 a.m
Guest Artist Recital Duo Axis: March 6, 2025
No full textKemp Recital Hall
March 6, 2025
Thursday Evening
7:30 p.m
Senior Recital: March 29, 2025
No full textKemp Recital Hall
March 29, 2025
Saturday Afternoon
5:00 p.m
Convocation Recital: April 1, 2025
No full textCenter for the Performing Arts
April 1, 2025
Tuesday Morning
11:00 a.m
Senior Recital: April 5, 2025
No full textKemp Recital Hall
April 5, 2025
Saturday Afternoon
1:30 p.m
Student Joint Recital: April 6, 2025Delia
No full textKemp Recital Hall
April 6, 2025
Sunday Evening
9:00 p.m