I shared most if not all of these Laredo gifs in a previous post. But they deserve their own post. From 'the Calico Kid'.
Joe looks so sad to see Chad making out with someone else. XD Laredo has lots of interesting stuff to ponder, but his character is among the most fascinating. The gay subtext between him and Chad is one thing, but I kinda want to claim him for the aces based on his overall portrayal on the show. (And honestly, he could be both. I'm ace but have distinct taste when it comes to aesthetic and romantic attraction. I'm a woman who is almost exclusively attracted to men, in the ways that I experience attraction.)
The rest of the characters are shown to have girl-of-the-week love interests. Chad and Erik have at least one girl on their arms during pretty much every episode. Reese and Parmalee are likewise shown to have interest in women.
I can’t remember an episode where he had a solo, romantic scene with a woman. He has been shown cozied up to a saloon girl very rarely and it’s always a situation where whoever else he’s with has a girl at their side. Expectation, peer pressure, conformity.
To make this all even more interesting, there is a woman who is canonically interested in him, and she's a recurring character no less. (The rest of the guys' girls are selected from the 1960s TV Women as Props Rolodex.) But he doesn't reciprocate and it's treated as a joke. Her means of getting close to him is to capture him, and in one instance, she tries to force him to marry her.
