Bull Market
Photography by Michael Wichita and Jackie Hubschman Being so close to Washington, there are spectators here at the Atlantic Stampede who have probably seen more drag queens than horses in their...
View ArticleShowing Some Skin
Photography by Michael Wichita Between the ASGRA gay rodeo and leather weekend, the gay community ensures that D.C. will experience an influx of both chaps and animal rights activists at least twice a...
View ArticleHorsing Around
When a one-ton bucking bull is tossing you around a rodeo arena like a rag doll, who's the clown you want watching your back? Ronald or Bozo? Sideshow or Krusty? Yeah, right. What you need is a rodeo...
View ArticleCountry Siren
What is it about Canada that produces such amazing country artists? Maybe it's the wide open spaces. Or maybe it's just the cleaner, crisper air. Or maybe it's because Canadians love to tell stories....
View ArticleBuck Off!
These are the sounds of a rodeo: Thumping hooves. Stomping feet. Snorting bulls. Yee-haw cowboys. Twangy guitars. Clapping hands. Clicking heels. Clicking heels? Well, we are talking gay rodeo here....
View ArticleRodeo 101
Think of the National Mall as the wide-open plain, Remington's as the local honky-tonk, and summer tourists as cattle. To make the illusion complete, some 700 miles east of the Gateway to the West, the...
View ArticleBroncs, Boots and Beats
In these parts, the start of the Atlantic hurricane season means more than flash flooding and power outages. It means it's time for another Atlantic Stampede Rodeo -- the weekend-long shindig sponsored...
View ArticleSaddle Up
If you've never been to a rodeo before, you might not know what ''Calf Roping,'' ''Chute Dogging'' or ''Goat Dressing'' are. But if the country-western theme strikes a chord with you, the 16th annual...
View ArticleHorse Sense
When she began her career as a racetrack veterinarian in the late 1980s, Linda Molesworth was something of a novelty at Maryland racetracks. As a woman working the ''backside'' -- the working end of...
View ArticleA Rootin' Tootin' Return
The faint scent of steers and sawdust, mixed with same-sex affection, will soon waft once more across the metro area. Marking its 17th year, the Atlantic Stampede rolls into the Montgomery County...
View ArticleNo-Go for Rodeo
As images of the infamous Dust Bowl of the 1930s served as a backdrop to the Great Depression, D.C.'s GLBT community now has its own dusty icon to mark economic hard times: an empty rodeo ring. For the...
View ArticleForgo Rodeo
In years past, this has been the season when the area's LGBT rodeo enthusiasts would begin to make plans for the Atlantic Stampede, the annual gay-rodeo weekend presented by the Atlantic States Gay...
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