Exploring the Queer History of the Old West... Yeehaw

Thank you so much to everyone who watched the video over its first week! The video accrued $570.73 in revenue from Ad/sense which I rounded up to $600 and donated to the First Nations Development Institute. ☺💜 Thank you for making the hard work this video took worth it, and thank you for your eagerness to learn!

I've never really thought of "Jolene" by Dolly Parton as a queer song before. I'm gonna have to dig through those lyrics with a fine tooth comb. Maybe if the singer was male presenting?

I LOVW CALAMITY JANE :3

Yay for real history!

There's a reason I'm so infatuated by Cowboys. This was truly grand to watch and so informative. Thank you so much! Very much a Slay! 💅

I did my senior thesis in college in part about how this kind of person bred hippies who bred punks,, which is my own family history

Also as someone with the word cowboy tattooed on my knees knowing this history makes me so happy, i could feel it in my soul when i made that choice

Nothing special about being genetically defective.

WOMEN TRAVELING ACROSS COUNTRY OR BY SHIPS, WERE SMART TO DRESS AND ACT LIKE MEN FOR SURVIVAL. AND MAYBE EASIER TO GET BY IN WILD WEST, MINING CAMPS, RANCHES, ETC. NEED NOT BE SAPPHIC.
SEEMS WHEN MEN OR WOMEN ARE ISOLATED WITH THEIR ON GENDER, HOMOSEXUALITY WILL OCCUR. HUMANS BE HUMANS👌👌👌👌👌👌

LOVE TO SEE YOU DO A VIDEO ON "HERMAPHRODITES IN HISTORY" FASCINATING STORIES I'VE READ.👍👍👍👍👍👍

Native Americans accepted men who were feminine and not warriors. They were accepted and worked as women did. 👍👍❤❤

MELVILLE'S "THE BACHELORS OF PARADISE AND MAIDS OF TARTARUS" IS GREAT IN JUXTAPOSITION OF WEALTHY SINGLE MEN, GETTING RICH FROM THE LABOR OF SINGLE WOMEN IN MILLS, FACTORIES, SHOPS, BAKERIES, ETC.👎👎👎👎👎

MANY WOMEN MADE MORE MONEY THAN MINERS DURING GOLD RUSH!!!🤑🤑🤑🤑
WOMEN MAY HAVE BEEN SALOON GIRLS, WHORES, BUT SOME LOVED WOMEN DUE TO BAD TREATMENT AND CONTROL FROM MEN🤑🤑🤑🤑

I wish this video existed when I had to read The Son for a class.

You've made a lot of queer history videos about gays, lesbians, bis, and transfolk, and they're all so wonderful. I was wondering if you would ever think of making one on aspecs? I know it is especially difficult, given it can never be as clear cut as two women writing love letters to each other or men calling each other their husband, especially for aces where they could still do these public chaste things if they aren't aroace, and you would never know what goes on in the bedroom or why, and in some cases people don't care as much. It always bothers me that when people hear "woman never married" in a history book they immediately jump to her being a lesbian with a secret wife, they just assume they must still be attracted to *someone*. I heard a bit ago about how some people thought Marilyn Monroe might have been biro-ace, and it made me realize I've never heard anyone talk about potentially would-be-aspec-today historical figures like people love to talk about other lgbt+ historical figures.
idk, I was just htinking about how you talk about how toxic the hypermasculinity rampant in the gay community and disowning of effeminate men/fairies is, and it helped me realize why i hate 'positivity' posts/videos about aspecs that always try to assure people that there are aspec people who love having/talking about sex and call sex-repulsed aces puritans, and it made me believe if you ever did make a queer history video for aspecs it would be good and nuanced in a way you do.

I always was fascinated by cowboys. I discovered similar personality traits, as well as gendered expectations when I was a sailor in the Coast Guard. At the time I still presented female, identified as a lesbian, and was dealing with Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Anyway, I bet you can find very similar stories among sailors and truckers. Something about being far from civilization and existing in small peer communities.

What rubbish this narcissist is spewing. Lies!

I think Cowpoke Kaz is in my Top 10 Kaz's along with Peterpan Kaz and Apothecary "DOCTOR" Kaz

what a stupid imbecile of a video

I so love that you cite Patricia Nell Warren in this context. As a young gay man in the 80s I was playing cocktail piano at a fundraising party in Laguna Beach for a proposed film of "The Front Runner". It was a room filled with wealthy gay men of a certain age. I was playing show tunes and Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, etc. and, of course, Barry Manilow and Streisand hits. On a break I walked over to Patricia and told her how much the book had meant to me, which it had. I asked her if there was a favorite song of hers I could play. She asked for "Home, Home On The Range".

Fantastic video. Thanks for educating me. Happy trails buckaroos

if anyone's ever been to a rodeo especially down south its safe to say for me at least have there never not been a crowd so completely and unapologetically stands with concretely planted feet never so much as pretending to move on the subject of homosexuality.. this migbt be a long shot but i truly believe ull find a southern rodeo who stop mid bull ride to preform a group abortion one in which everyone in attendance with a womb entered wit it not so barren as they all shall leave.. this horror show unrealistic mind F truly has better odds of happening then anyone in attendance at same rodeo would embrace there newly out of the closet son or daughter and lets them know there so happy fir them to include them in shift in no longer hiding from what one has always been.. if im wrong about this plz set me straight its just ive alwsys had terrible vibes of non acceptance when in the company of people like that... then again maybe im just a cowboy bigot and shsme in me

I adore all your videos. I'm a straight woman but regardless you never fail to make me feel so deeply. I couldn't stop crying at that first poem. Thank you for being historically accurate, entertaining, and a great story teller. I love the beautiful and not so beautiful history you bring to us ❤

ur southern drawl in combo with that hat is the stuff nightmares are made of.. and I mean that in the most complimentary and hopefully non offensive way possible :)

I've heard about "imposter laws." They were created to keep rich whites from claiming native ancestry so as to avoid taxes. These laws were used against gender non-conforming people. This was a daily threat in the old west.

Bravo!!! Nicely done..informative..FUNNY..and genuine. You should be teaching a Masters class at the U of T. Plus you have that unique different narrative voice that is non threatening and not whiney..(as some of these channels seem to promote). Rooten and tooten,indeed!

Damn, hit me in the feels with that poem in the middle.

This video gave me feels towards the American west that I’ve never felt before. Incredible video essay.

Nonsense

I am so impressed by the depth you went into for this video, all the history, and also the MANY very impressive costume changes?! I was hung on ever word and ever new look simultaneously lol

Being forced into transitioning due to homophobia isn't trans history. It's part of gay history and you're erasing it by presenting it as something it isn't.

The hey day of the independent cattle ranche was between 1865 to 1889. When a particulary bad winter for the the real ranchers to sell, and let's not forget barbed wire. The best cowboy movie was MONTE WALSH

I'm honestly shocked that people are refusing to acknowledge hispanic cowboys. Maybe it's because I'm Texan, and thus closer to the border than say, a New Yorker, but we've got tons of stuff featuring hispanic cowboys in my area - especially in Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants. Though now that it's been pointed out to me, I'm realizing that there weren't very many of them in the old westerns my dad likes, so I guess if that's you're only exposure to ranch culture it probably would be easy to overlook...

I remember in middle school having no real language to convey how angry I was at my teacher for dismissing afab people who hid their gender as "just doing it so they could take men's work"

Absolutely love hearing you talk about queer history. Every video about it is so informative and really helpful to understand the queer people that came before us

I'm a second generation Native American from a full blooded Native American family and I really appreciate the donation you did! I grew up on a reservation and the younger kids really need the cultural support 😁 Tysm

Algormancy!

roasting mini marshmallows is the queerest thing I've heard today . BRB, getting tea lights

"trans" was not a thing back then, it is a modern term. Let's not erase gay and bi people of the past with the trans assumption.

The perverted has always been governed by sexuality Very dull really for a human brain to let itself be pathetically governed Regardless of sexual preference

Wanting to live as the opposite gender ≠ being the gender opposite of your biological gender

as a trans man who is a barrel racer and has been discriminated against in getting into the rodeo this was a amazing video and even I myself didn’t know the queer history of a sport i love

“Poor dear, I hope she is finally comf” made me want to rip my heart out 😭😭

I just love your videos. The info is much appreciated.

LGBTQ+++ 789xyz
And continuing to be redone and redefined daily... is a new phenomenon that never existed before very recent times.

While people have been heterosexual and bi sexual..
For centuries. It was not anything sexual goes for the most part in the West.

But unless you or I lived back then we don't really know beyond our times...

We know what people wrote in books and letters, offering records, affidavits...

Just saying and keeping it real

You have done a good job of making your point of view known.

You have been nice and polite.

Its all i can Ask.

I am Native American
And European alike.

I don't bother No one and I ask for the same.

I hope you do well and prosper.

Be cool 😎 and Peace Out

I feel like the introduction of internet continues to bastardize our perception of history and even current world events... It makes me wonder if in the future itll be hard for people to say how we were nowadays...

As a fellow queer texan I’ve always believed that at their core, cowboys are gay leftists