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of people put a lot of effort into getting that to-
gether and that means something to me," lie
says.) For him, as gays are fond of saying, it's a
life, not a lifestyle.
"Anyone involved in the rodeo, gay or
straight, says it's a way of life," he sayS. "I'm
single, and it's difficult dating living where I
live, but I decided I wasn't gonna sacrifice what
I wanted for a guy. I have a great life so
I'm pretty happy. This is who I
am. It's what I am."
The rodeo also gives him a
chance to show off his skills be-
hind the scenes.
"It's a kind of a gratification of
how I've trained my horses," he
admits of each victory. "The oldest
horse I own is 19 and she's the
mother of another two, so I have
bred them myself. You do well, it
fe a reflection of that. You're say-
ing, 'My horse is very talented,
and I did that.'"
But, Colella admits, there's
more to getting involved in the
gay rodeo than all of that. It's the
sense of community that comes
with it.
"Everyone just takes care of
you," he says, "I think it's important that we all
belong to a group, an organization, whether it's
your church or the leather community or the
rodeo. IGRA helped me find who I am, helped
define who I am. Any club who can bring out
who you are [is valuable], I've met so many
people from around the country. It's just amaz-
ing the amount of friends who offer support.
"Most of the people in the top 10 or 20 are
competitive, but we all want evert/body to do
well. I wanna win, but I'm gonna root for the
next guy and coach him to do just as well."
Colella is fit and healthy, but now in his 50s,
the most he'll promise about what he'll be
doing five years from now is say he hopes, to be
upright. But the rodeo grabs ahold of you in a
way you can't fully control.
"There's a friend of mine in the rodeo who's
over 60 and still doing all the events: He's still
wrestling steer and riding horses," hesays. "We
joke that the day he dies, we're all gonna say,
'Thank god! Now we can stop,' because as long
as he's doing it we can't justifying quitting. But
one day, I'll do other things at home with my
horses."
Like any great movie cowboy, the time'11
come to ride off into the sunset.
But not this weekend. This weekend, there
are ribbons and buckles and titles to be won
and animals to be tamed. That's life on the
rodeo, ■
RIDE' EM | Corella will compete in 7 of 14 events at the invitation-only IGRA this weekend.
(Arnold Wayne Jones/Dallas Voice)
Ryan Gosling has discovered a cool little
niche for himself recently: He gives equal time to
parading around shirtless showing off his abs on
magazine covers and in digestible Hollywood
pabulum {Crazy Stupid Love, The Notebook)
and staring off blankly under the guise of acting
in regrettable art films (Drive, All Good Things).
That formula has won him praise by easily fooled
critics, who appear to be the target audience for
The Ides of March, a slow and pretentious polit-
ical thriller in which Gosling gets to be the love
interest and the intellectual hero, all without be-
traying anything bordering on genuine emotion.
Set during a presidential primary, it's little
more than a middling episode of The West Wing,
laden down with a weak performance by Evan
Rachel Wood, a contrived, unconvincing political
scandal involving candidate George Clooney
(who also directs, woodenly) and even a self-im-
portant title. Vote "no" on this ballot measure.
Please, Ryan, just strip and stop trying.
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