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Milky way over old barn - Fort Basinger, FL

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Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.

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Thank you.

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I will always re-blog this

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I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.

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Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.

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I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y'all gon learn today.

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Teach the children.

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also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.

IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.

no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.

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Im here for the gay POC cowboys

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A few reading materials supporting LBGTQIA cowboy culture:

True West Magazine, 2005

LA Times, 2009 piece on the “Out West” exhibit at the Autry museum

Book: “Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 - ISBN: 978-1403975973)

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It’s true. The popular conception that country music is a primarily white genre is, well, a white lie. Country is a combination of Appalachian folk music and blues. Some of the very first artists to build out the country appellation were black artists, such as DeFord Bailey, a black harmonica player and Grand Ol’ Opry star, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and Charley Pride, who became RCA’s best-selling artist since Elvis in the ‘70s. Then there’s the little-known history of the banjo — it’s not as white as you think.

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Today in Hip hop History:

André 3000 was born May 27, 1975

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In Durham, North Carolina

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Country Store, Barberville Pioneer Settlement

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So many times I have heard the same story of people taking their Southern birth and heritage for granted, wishing at a young age for the bright lights and watered-down culture of the big cities only to one day, likely in a time of serious hardship and introspection, discover that they find solace and comfort in their Southern home, that home is truly where the heart resides. I rediscovered the beauty of my home, and, luckily for me, I rediscovered myself and the identity I so desperately sought. I can truly say the South saved my soul and for that, I will be forever grateful.

Nicholas Harrelson’s “The South Saved My Soul” in The Bitter Southerner