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Katie77:
Was talking to Fiona over in Dev's Blog about our connection with cowboys, even before BBM, So thought I would start this thread about cowboys.

What connection did you have with cowboys before BBM, or after?

Who was your favourite cowboy on TV or in the Movies, and why.

Just tell us any stories about cowboys.

Do you wear cowboy boots or any cowboy clothes regularly?

Katie77:
This is the copy of the post I put in Dev's blog, about my own connection with Cowboys before BBM.


And yes Fiona, I too have had a few memories stirred up, thinking about the cowboy connection in my own life.

My dad, who was gay, always wore jeans, and always wore riding boots or cowboy boots, and that was back in the 50's and 60's. I have photos of him in his thirties wearing a cowboy hat, and he even had the gun belt with holsters.  As I got older, I used to always say, that Dad should have been a cowboy in the wild west. His hero was Hank Williams who always wore a cowboy hat.

Even  when I got married, and he gave me away (in 1969) he did wear a suit, (which he did look very uncomfortable in), but the shoes he wore, were his cowboy boots.

Jeff Wrangler:
It's been a long time since Westerns were popular on U.S. television. I really had to think a while about a favorite TV cowboy. When I was growing up my favorite actually wasn't a cowboy, it was the frontiersman Daniel Boone, as portrayed by Fess Parker, who is also famous for having played Davy Crockett. But looking back, I suppose if I had to pick one favorite cowboy it would have been Little Joe Cartwright (Michael Landon), of Bonanza. He was dreamy. ...  ;D

These days I regularly wear "cowboy casual," as I call it, when I go out on a Saturday night. There has long been a gay community devoted to two-steppin' and line dancing, and those boys regularly wear cowboy boots and hats, but I haven't been and still am not a part of that scene. Still, it was also fairly common to see guys in cowboy boots and hats in our leather bar, which was my hangout for a good twenty years (we don't have a Western bar in Philadelphia). About a year before Brokeback Mountain came out, however, I began to migrate my casual wardrobe to a more Western look. The look was still masculine and a lot less work than the leather/biker gear I'd warn for years. And besides, most of leather gear didn't fit anymore!  :laugh:

Katie77:
Yeah, I have to agree with you about Michael Landon as Little Joe Cartwright.....he was sexy in his youthful boyish way, and very handsome. And he did wear those trousers very tight too. His brother Adam (Pernell Roberts) was very good looking too in a more mature kind of way.

I remember a cowboy show I used to watch called Broken Arrow. I know Michael Ansara played the Indian, but I remember I liked the cowboy very much too.

Oh, and who looked dirtier and rougher than Clint Eastwood in those spaghetti westerns. :o

injest:

--- Quote from: Katie77 on September 08, 2008, 08:12:45 pm ---Yeah, I have to agree with you about Michael Landon as Little Joe Cartwright.....he was sexy in his youthful boyish way, and very handsome. And he did wear those trousers very tight too. His brother Adam (Pernell Roberts) was very good looking too in a more mature kind of way.

I remember a cowboy show I used to watch called Broken Arrow. I know Michael Ansara played the Indian, but I remember I liked the cowboy very much too.

Oh, and who looked dirtier and rougher than Clint Eastwood in those spaghetti westerns. :o

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I was wondering when someone would mention Eastwood...

just about anyone in "The Magnificent Seven" but Yul Brynner especially...

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