Abstract
At the core of the Gay Rodeo Oral History Project has been gay men’s fascination with rodeo as a tool of (imperfect) resistance by a population who had the cowboy image weaponized against them over the course of the twentieth century. This chapter explores how oral historians often sit at generational crossroads and, therefore, we must be conscious of how our studies illuminate, elide, or even exacerbate these gaps, at times through simple logistical decisions. By not only engaging with communities to gather interviews but then also sharing their stories, oral history has often been at the center of the broader public humanities, a field that connects different publics through shared narratives.