Royalty in a box!
Well Gentle Readers, Last nights festivities began around 8:30 and proceeded like clockwork. Our remaining royalty members from rodeo weekend assisted Miss AGRA 2012 Trixie DeLuxe (what a fantastic...
View ArticleNew for 2012: Blogs from your IGRA Officers and Royalty!
Wish you could be at all the IGRA rodeos in 2012, but your schedule and finances won’t allow? Now you can join our IGRA officers and royalty as they attend each of the rodeos on the IGRA circuit. For...
View ArticleHello Texas
Well here we are! One week out from A Texas Tradition Rodeo for my home Association TGRA. The rodeo committee has been tirelessly working to get our ponies in a row and from what I can see, things are...
View ArticleA Texas Tradition Rodeo entertainment lineup
Next weekend during A Texas Tradition Rodeo at W. R. Watt arena in Fort Worth Texas, all Royalty entertainment will be between the hours of 1 and 5 pm both Saturday March 3rd & Sunday March 4th. On...
View ArticleGay & Lesbian Rodeo Heritage Foundation Grants Available
The Gay & Lesbian Rodeo Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce that grant funding is available to the western/rodeo/equestrian community.These capacity building grants will be award in sums of...
View Articlesunday, SUNday, SUNDAY!!!
Back Stage dressing room of The Texas Twister Saloon preparing for The Sunday Mash Up show Starring the Austin Babtist Women, with The Free Ho Lays, King & Queen of the Rodeo, The United Court of...
View ArticleRodeo Production Guidebook Updated for 2012
The newly updated Rodeo Production Guidebook is now available on the IGRA website. Thanks to Chuck Browning for updating the following sections: IGRA Rodeo Scheduling Fees & Income Rodeo Contestant...
View ArticlePics: IGRA Cowboys and their Bull Invade NYC for the GLBT Expo
Once again this year IGRA was proud to be a featured partner with Bud Light at the 19th Annual Original GLBT Expo. The event was held on March 17 and 18, 2012 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center...
View ArticleStars Over Texas
Please join Miss IGRA 2012 Victoria Weston and her special guests The Austin Babtist Women for Stars Over Texas at the Rose Room April 1st, 2012. 3911 Ceadar Springs, Dallas TX 75219 Doors open @ 7:00...
View ArticleGetting back in the pink
The words March Madness usually refer to college basketball and yes that is prevalent in our home with Sterling keeping up with college ball as well as the Dallas Mavericks. But my March has been crazy...
View ArticleIGRA Archives Committee Announces Major Milestone
In July 2011, along with Brian Rogers and Patrick Terry, Frank Harrell started the Gay Rodeo History website. This website now includes ALL 380 of the rodeo programs and 15 rodeo oriented magazines...
View ArticleCancellation of 2012 Sierra Stampede Rodeo in Sacramento
It is with deep regret that SCCGRA announces the cancellation of the Sierra Stampede Rodeo scheduled for June 8-10, 2012 in Sacramento, CA. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We...
View ArticlePerformances along with April Showers begins
Well Gentle Readers, after a full month of recovering from bronchial pnemonia I am finally getting my energy back enough to jump back into the pace of performances and travel. Thankfully I had planned...
View ArticleIGRA Website is Multilingual: English, Español & Française
We are pleased to announce that the IGRA website is now available in English, Spanish and French. Converting pages between languages is very simple: just choose the drop-down in the sidebar of every...
View ArticlePride in the Saddle Starts in Nevada: The Story of Gay Rodeo
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, Out West 2012 & Nevada Gay Rodeo Association to presentPride in the Saddle Starts in Nevada: The Story of Gay Rodeo Saturday, May 19, 6:00 – 8:00 P.M. LAS...
View ArticleFGRA’s Sunshine Stampede Featured in the Miami Herald
This year’s Sunshine Stampede in Fort Lauderdale, Florida once again attracted the attention of the local media. Here are two articles that were published over rodeo weekend in the Miami Herald...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleIGRA Health and Safety Video Available on YouTube
We are pleased to announce that, thanks to the hard work of Frank Harrell (http://cowboyfrank.net) the IGRA Health and Safety video is now available on YouTube. Click here for the IGRA Health and...
View ArticleTGRA Distributes over $80,000 in Charity Donations for 2011-12
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 3, 2012 AUSTIN, TEXAS — Today the Texas Gay Rodeo Association announces upcoming charity donation distributions from 2011 fund raising efforts to be in excess of $62,000....
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