Ramrods, by James Wolcott

[Elidor]

If http://www.family.org/docstudy/">SpongeDob Stickypants wishes to train his gaydar on a homosexual menace that threatens the very synthetic fiber of the institution of marriage, he need only dial an innocent-sounding cable channel called GoodLife TV, which smolders with muscular man-on-man action smuggled under the guise of "nostalgia.
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However, Goodlife has also saw fit to resurrect a batch of Warner Brothers Westerns that exude a musky aroma of a bunkhouse where the wrong kind of bunking has been going on after sundown.

Bronco, starring Ty Hardin. Bronco. Ty. You tell me those aren't gay-sounding names. Then there's Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins. Sugarfoot--another name that sounds awfully fey to me. In the title song, he's described as "easy lopin'" (the sagebrush version of cruising), and joggin' along "with a heart full of song." Show tunes, no doubt. Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker, whose title tune asks the haunting musical question, "Cheyenne, Cheyenne where will you be camping tonight?" Camping, indeed! The song has him dreaming "of a girl you may never love," and I think I know why he may never love her, and why he needs to go "camping."

But no Warner Brothers Western promotes the gay lifestyle more than Lawman, starring John Russell and Peter Brown. "John Russell, a 6'4" ramrod straight, ex-Marine with the most compelling steely gaze on television, embodied the courageous, no-nonsense Marshal Dan Troop," says a Lawman fan site. Peter Brown played his young deputy, and theirs was a stern daddy/ relationship seething with subtext. "The series generally avoided sentimentality, but for those who looked for it, the bond between the two characters was even stronger than the words exchanged would suggest." The nature of that bond is indicated in the opening credits, where sheriff would toss his rifle to his handsome deputy, who "hefted it with approval." Oh I just bet he hefted it with approval.

http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/01/ramrods.php
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[Paul Hood]

1. Wolcott is great.

Your link didn't work for me, but I have him bookmarked and it was right on top.
http://jameswolcott.com/

[Elidor]

2. Oops. Fixed it.