straight people watching brokeback mountain and going “heehee gay cowboys! so funny!” is literally evil. it’s a movie about how gay men are terrified to be together and a lot of them end up in unhappy and unfulfilling het marriages. a lot of gay men back in the day were cowboys with the express purpose of living their fucking lives. gay cowboys existed everywhere because being out there in the middle of fuck knows where surrounded my other men (often times their partners) and farm animals was better than being publicly out and murdered, especially if you were a man of color, since they pioneered cowboy culture.
