From a Straight Friend in Palm Springs: “Diary of a Rodeo Virgin”

In anticipation of the upcoming Hot Rodeo 2012 in Palm Springs, a Patch regional director tells about her first time competing in rodeo. She tried steer deco and goat dressing at Hot Rodeo 2011.

“It was literally my first rodeo. My sister Stef and her husband Jeff Curtis from Broomfield, Colo., have been competing and having fun in gay rodeo events for a couple of years.

When we learned the rodeo was coming to Banning, Stef asked me to compete with her in the goat dressing competition.

Yes, I am thinking what you are thinking, what is goat dressing? Turns out, it’s a fast little event where two contestants compete to get men’s fruit-of-the-looms on a goat in the shortest time.

So, I thought . . . sure, why not? How hard can it be?

Full disclosure: I’m 40 years old, 5’5″ and not gay. What interested me about the gay rodeo was the people I had heard so much about from my sister and her husband, the community they had joined, and all the fun they have.”

Read the full story here: http://banning-beaumont.patch.com/articles/diary-of-a-rodeo-virgin