Once I would have been both amused and saddened by the woman who repeatedly told Stan Lee on CNN that the Rawhide can’t, simply can’t be gay because kids might get their hands on the comic and comics, as we all know, are for kids. Except a DA actually got a store owner convicted for that very notion.
Which leads one to wonder whether in some homophobic communities whether stores will be targeted for having those evil queer comic books available to warp young minds.
And besides…c’mon…the Rawhide Kid? What about the Lone Ranger? The kinky mask. “Hi ho, Silver,” indeed (although I’ve also heard “Hi yo, Silver,” but that’s not much better.) That snappy powder blue ensemble. “On, Big Fella?” “Mount up?” And what’s *really* going on with Tonto?
Actually, if you want to see gay deconstruction of the wild west, check out the comedy “Rustler’s Rhapsody.”
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