The Wild West wasn’t all about tough cowboys and saloons. Historians like Amanda Timpson reveal that queer people were part of its fabric too. The Focus reported, "The LGBTQ+ community has always had a presence in human society," and this includes the frontier era. One mining facility in rural California, for instance, hosted stag parties where men danced and assumed different gender roles. Adventurer William Drummond Stewart had a long-term relationship with a male companion, and transgender man Harry Allen was notorious for both his criminal activities and his softer side. From cowboys to miners, intimate male-male relationships were common, and according to historian Heather Klempnauer Miller, "engaging in male-male sex didn’t necessarily mean a cowboy had to rethink his sexual identity.” Queer people have always been part of America’s history, even in the Wild West. #Queer Up Entertainment