2/3/2024 0 Comments Cute gay men kissing![]() “To begin with, it was very personal, a way to reconnect with a side of myself I had suppressed. It embraces both ends of the American cultural spectrum: people living on the land, but who are also queer. What I think is really beautiful, and so inspiring, about the queer rodeo community is that it brings back that aura of promise. ![]() But as we grow older, we realise this promise is kind of a myth. “We’re taught in school to recite the national anthem every morning. The result is National Anthem, Gilford’s first photographic monograph – and, to his mind, a timely musing on the state of America. ![]() We don’t think of them going together.” He set about exploring how they might. “We all know what a rodeo is,” he says, “and we all know what queer is. So this chance encounter with a bunch of people who’d managed to do what seemed impossible to him was as exciting as it was discombobulating. We don’t think of them as going together.’ Photograph: Luke Gilford ‘We all know what a rodeo is and we all know what queer is.
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