This website is best viewed in a browser that supports web standards.

Skip to content or, if you would rather, Skip to navigation.

Listen Live
Donate
MARYVILLE

KXCV-KRNW


News Brief

June 12, 2024Maryville, Mo. |  By: Jeremy Werner

Northwest Missouri State Professor Publishes Book on Queer Rodeo Culture

elyssa ford's new book

MARYVILLE, Mo. - A history professor at Northwest Missouri State University, has published her second book, “Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo.”

The 288-page book by Dr. Elyssa Ford explores the history and evolution of gay rodeo, highlighting the LGBTQ+ community's unique rodeo events and addressing issues such as hypermasculinity, political and consumer power, AIDS, and the role of women.

Download .mp3

Inspired by a chapter on gay rodeo in her previous book, “Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion,” Dr. Ford collaborated with Rebecca Scofield, associate professor of history at the University of Idaho, to deepen their research on this topic.