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Related: About this forumLas Vegas throws arms around gay rodeo
Posted date October 6, 2015 - 10:27am
Updated October 6, 2015 - 3:32pm
Las Vegas throws arms around gay rodeo
Doug Elfman
writes about Las Vegas nightclubs and entertainment on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
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Leave it to Las Vegas to give a warm welcome to gay rodeo cowboys and cowgirls, treating them as if they're equal to, or more fun than, traditional rodeos. ... And that is why Vegas is awesome and vibrant.
The World Gay Rodeo Finals run Thursday through Sunday at South Point, the event's first Vegas stand, after four years of doing up Fort Worth, Texas.
Rodeo director Robert Thurtell says Vegas "is where we need to be," and the proof is in an explosion of room reservations.
"It's more than tripled what we had anticipated. It's a phenomenal problem to have. The hotel has been so gracious," Thurtell said. "It's unreal."
Updated October 6, 2015 - 3:32pm
Las Vegas throws arms around gay rodeo
Doug Elfman
writes about Las Vegas nightclubs and entertainment on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
delfman@reviewjournal.com
He blogs at reviewjournal.com/elfman.
@VegasAnonymous
Leave it to Las Vegas to give a warm welcome to gay rodeo cowboys and cowgirls, treating them as if they're equal to, or more fun than, traditional rodeos. ... And that is why Vegas is awesome and vibrant.
The World Gay Rodeo Finals run Thursday through Sunday at South Point, the event's first Vegas stand, after four years of doing up Fort Worth, Texas.
Rodeo director Robert Thurtell says Vegas "is where we need to be," and the proof is in an explosion of room reservations.
"It's more than tripled what we had anticipated. It's a phenomenal problem to have. The hotel has been so gracious," Thurtell said. "It's unreal."
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Las Vegas throws arms around gay rodeo (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Oct 2015
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Cool!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Big dollar event.
Hearing tickets are tough to get. This will blow the local fundies undies to high heaven.
beergood
(470 posts)3. been to plenty of rodeos as a kid in springvile, ca
why does it matter if its sponsored by an lgbt group? a rodeos a rodeo?
the only difference i can think of is that gays won't have to worry about the homophobic red necks.