Rodeo's influence on the gay community and why it's been erased from history

Rodeo's influence on the gay community and why it's been erased from history

MOSCOW – As this season of Idaho Rodeo fades into history, Professor Rebecca Scofield at the University of Idaho is uncovering a page from the sport’s forgotten past. “When I was doing my master’s thesis on the acrylic nail industry in Tokyo, I ran across a store called “Rodeo Clowns,” Scofield said. “These rodeo performances became so important to different groups, whether that’s incarcerated people, or women, or black rodeo-ers, or gay rodeos.…