Books about gay cowboys

Jesse and Ben are caught in the middle of it, with only each other to rely on. The two meet by chance at the Pony Express Station, and take up the special assignment together: a dangerous route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to California that finds Jesse and Ben pitted against any number of strange, inexplicable sights and creatures.

We never say no to Gay Gailey in this apartment. Many authors take their queering of the Western even further by blending in other genres to create fantastic cross-genre stories, and you know I love a book that takes genre lines and stomps all over them!

The Nightland Express is about a young trans man, Jesse Murphy, who takes a special assignment with the Pony Express in order to feed his family and find his absent father out in California, and Ben Foley, a young, mixed-race gay man passing for white in order to protect his freedom.

This one has been on my radar for a couple of months now because I love the idea of a queer, fantasy take on the Pony Express. The short of the long is that queer narratives have, and have always had, a place in the Western genre, and it is always a constant delight to see books being published that explore and push out the boundaries of the genre from a queer perspective.

No gays allowed. You can follow her on TwitterBlueskyand Instagram. When one of the girls about commits murder, the girls band together to make their escape. Not only does the common form of the Western genre conveniently forget that a significant portion of cowboys and settlers in the West were Black, but also that forms of queerness were common in the period of the 19th century we think of as the Old West.

Escaping the bloodshed that follows, Annette flees to the nearby town. Chris Packard has a book on this topic, Queer Cowboysthat is well worth checking out if you have an interest in the history in question! These 10 queer western books explore and push out the boundaries of their genres from a queer perspective.

Their books are always excellent, and Upright Women Wante d is no exception. Apparently, there is another, magical world that exists just beneath our own, only now the two are tearing themselves apart after years of violent war and colonization.

We love to see it. This is why, no matter what it takes, no matter what she learns about herself along the way, Salvation Spring is where Sasha has to go. Set in New Mexico Territory inCruel Angels Past Sundow n is about a woman, Annette, and her husband, whose life together is violently and irrevocably interrupted one day at sunset when a naked, pregnant woman stumbles onto their ranch.

She has an MA in English from the University of Maine, and has been writing about books online since She started out writing about the Romance genre, but in recent years she has rekindled her love for Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy, with an emphasis on works of queer fiction.

If you want to see how wrong-headed that sentiment is, Kaz Rowe has a fantastic video on the history of gay cowboy movies and how that history was shaped. View All posts by Jessica Avery. The Good Luck Girls is a YA cowboy western novel set in the fictional country of Arketta, rather than the American West, but Western fans will quickly note the similarities between the two settings.

Salvation Spring may only be novella length, but it packs a lot of story into its pages. 57 books based on 45 votes: Nowhere Ranch by Heidi Cullinan, Touch Me Gently by J.R. Loveless, Timing by Mary Calmes, The Tin Star by J.L. Langley, The H. Queer Rural/Western Fiction 3 users like this Whether it's gay cowboys, trans sharpshooters, lesbian dance hall girls, or bi outlaws - reimagine the tropes and stereotypes of rural fiction set out in the American west with LGBTQ+ characters.

The town of Salvation Spring, standing alone in the middle of the desert, isolated and remote, is the only thing that Sasha knows. Only together, and only with the help of a book history of Good Luck Girls before them, can they hope to survive.