From Brokeback Mountain to Strange Way of Life, gay cowboys are as common as tumbleweeds. Cowboy iconography has long straddled the thin line between masculine bravado and homoeroticism. The gay cowboy trope may have been thrust into the spotlight with Brokeback Mountain in 2005 but queer cowboys were yeeing their haws on screen for decades before that. Now that queer cinematic cowboys are also as commonplace as tumbleweeds, ranking them is the obvious next step in queer minds. THEM magazine has done the exact thing by ranking queer cinematic cowboys in order from “most cliché” to “least cliché. The list has our favorite Daddy too, Pedro Pascal.
