History Main / GayCowboy

** In the season five episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E17ItTakesAVillageIdiotAndIMarriedOne It Takes a Village idiot and I Married One]]", Peter sings a song about [[Bowdlerize Cowboy Gay Sex]] (on DVD and cable, it's "butt sex") inspired by Film/BrokebackMountain.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', one cutaway gag refers to the famous quote "it's legal so long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses". Two horses are waiting outside a tent wondering why their masters are late getting up that morning. One horse, overcome by curiosity, looks inside. And is indeed frightened by what he sees.

* Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/RawhideKid in the eponymous 2003 limited series (but ''not'' in regular continuity, Earth 616 appearances). His over-hyped sexuality caused the books to be rated inappropriate for minors to read, even though the only indication he was gay was through certain innuendos and implications.

* "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other," aka "The Gay Cowboy Song".
* Masked country singer Music/OrvillePeck has identified himself as gay. His image, lyrics and music videos frequently feature queered versions of cowboy and western tropes.

* Jude the Dude in ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' is [[AmbiguouslyGay heavily implied]] to be one of these. His boss arena even features a banner that proclaims him as "The Brokest Back in the West".

** In ''The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour'' segment of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E24TheSimpsonsSpinOffShowcase The Simpsons Spin Off Showcase]]", he dresses as a cowboy and sings about [[WhipItGood whipping it good]] with a liquorice whip.

* "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other," aka "The Gay Cowboy Song."

--> "The cowboy just stood there in Levis and chaps/'till Randy said, 'hey, sit on down, have a beer.'/From the way that he smiled/When he walked over to us/ I said to myself this guy must be a ... [[LastSecondWordSwap Yankee."]]

* Jude the Dude in ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' is [[AmbiguouslyGay heavily implied]] to be one of these. His boss arena even features a banner that proclaims him as "The Brokest Back in the West."

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E9ChefsChocolateSaltyBalls Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls]]" features a film festival, and Cartman's famous line about gay cowboys eating pudding. [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Matt and Trey]] actually said before ''Brokeback Mountain'' came out that "if they eat pudding, we're going to sue."

This trope covers gay or bisexual men who are {{Western}}-flavored characters or just fans of the genre.

** [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot bisexual alien cowboy]] Michael Guerin.

-->'''Michael:''' Did it get old for you? [[https://youtu.be/ES4qF2Ic9Bk]]

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E9ElViajeMisteriosoDeNuestroJomer Via He Misterioso De Nuestro Homer]]" he shows up at the chilli festival wearing a pink and white cowboy outfit with a neon sign on the back saying "Hot Nashville Nights".

* In the musical production called ''FairyTales'', the song "Illinois Fred" tells the story of two men sitting at a bar encountering a cowboy named Illinois Fred, who enjoys antiques, Patsy Cline music, dancing, and taking men into the back of his truck to...play the radio.

* In the slasher film ''Film/{{Maskhead}}'', the contact the snuff film makers (a pair of [[PsychoLesbian Psycho Lesbians]]) have with their buyers is a cowboy who picks up men to fist and do other weird sexual things to. However, he vehemently claims he is not "a fucking fag".

* Creator/PaulLynde played a [[Radio/TheLoneRanger Lone Ranger]]-style character in a series of skits on a late-60s variety show - his 'clever disguises' tended to be Mardi Gras eye masks.

* The reputation surrounding super-selective [[http://www.deepsprings.edu/ Deep Springs College]], one of the last men's colleges in the US, where so-called "cowboy intellectuals" split their time between ranch labor and the western canon (they've now gone co-ed - the first female students have been attending since the fall of 2018).

* ''Series/RoswellNewMexico'' has resident [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot bisexual alien cowboy]] Michael Guerin.

* ''Series/RoswellNewMexico'' has resident bisexual alien cowboy Michael Guerin

* This was actually significantly more common in real life than most people realize. While the archetypical cowboy is straight, historians have noted that some cowboys were gay or bisexual men moving from the city out to the country to escape persecution. So this is among the most circular examples of TruthInTelevision out there, with the gay version of the cowboy having slipped into obscurity to such an extent that the idea of a gay cowboy became novel when re-introduced. Homosexual behavior was [[https://truewestmagazine.com/old-west-homosexuality-homos-on-the-range/ surprisingly open and acceptable]] in the Old West. Then again, this was before modern gay and or bisexual identifies were codified, and much of what they did seems to have been basically excused as {{sitch sexuality}} (to be fair, that may have been what was going on in some cases, but saying it was true in all of them is a stretch).

* This was actually significantly more common in real life than most people realize. While the archetypical cowboy is straight, historians have noted that many cowboys were gay or bisexual men moving from the city out to the country to escape persecution. So this is among the most circular examples of TruthInTelevision out there, with the gay version of the cowboy having slipped into obscurity to such an extent that the idea of a gay cowboy became novel when re-introduced. Homosexual behavior was [[https://truewestmagazine.com/old-west-homosexuality-homos-on-the-range/ surprisingly open and acceptable]] in the Old West. Then again, this was before modern gay and or bisexual identifies were codified, and much of what they did seems to have been basically excused as {{sitch sexuality}} (to be fair, that may have been what was going on in some cases, but saying it was true in all of them is a stretch).