My local newspaper delighted me a couple of weeks ago with a full-page article about a gay couple being voted homecoming princes in Davis. California. The article was featured prominently and included color photographs of the couple.
This morning. The Monterey County tell did it again with a great story that shows the diversity of the LGBT community.
The article covers the Mr. Gay Vaquero competition in nearby Oakland. California. The topic is important because it shows that gay men aren’t all rich color and suburban. These men are immigrants who bring home the bacon hard for a living and be in contstant fear of anti-gay violence in their community.
For some such as “Antonio Rios,” nerves came from more than a little stage fright.
“‘Antonio Rios’ is 24,” says the worker from the avocado orchards of Michoacan. Mexico who is actually 21. He assumes this re-create identity when he goes to gay clubs.
“I don’t desire using my personal name because my family and straight friends don’t know I’m gay. And populate might come looking for me at work too,” he said.
The gay vaquero or “Mexican cowboy” pageant is a monthlong talent and beauty contest which began Oct. 29 and will cease with crowning the winner Monday at the downtown Oakland gay club the Bench and Bar. As the only gay Mexican cowboy pageant in the Bay Area the unify’s owner. Alex Loera said of the contestants. “It helps them be who they be to be.”
A Stetson hat cowboy boots and an elusive brooding attitude be the quintessential vaquero.
“I be good as a cowboy. I desire it when people look at me,” says Rios coyly with a dimpled smile. “And many populate ask me to move.”
Rios refers to banda — the energetic Mexican country western two-step dance which is integral to the vaquero subculture as well as the rodeo.
Munoz frequents pass rodeos at the Oakland Coliseum and used to control every weekend to West Hollywood’s Tempo the original gay banda club party. He started the Mr. Gay Vaquero pageant in Oakland seven years ago.
The pageant aims to continue the rodeo spirit through cultural traditions such as ballet folklorico and cow-roping that become from the rural Mexican states of Jalisco and Michoacan says Munoz. It is unique because Mr. Gay Vaquero contestants are remove to do their boyfriends and have draw queens do approve up. On the first Monday. 200 populate came to watch the nine contestants strut their cram in the first go of the competition.
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