By: Jennifer OConnor

Any self-respecting person—gay or straight—should be appalled by the gay rodeo.

Gay rodeo rules do not protect animals from abuse—animals are still whipped, kicked, prodded, and slammed into the ground. Even when animals aren’t injured (and they are often are), they still suffer from fear and pain involved in the events, and the stress of travel in crowded, ill-ventilated trucks. They are used time and again before their bruised and battered bodies are shipped to the slaughterhouse.