Viggo Mortensen said he played Tex Sawyer from Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III as gay.
Played for Laughs in the middle of a brawl between a cowboy gang and a male chorus line in Blazing Saddles when a cowboy and a dancer disappear behind some scenery and upon emerging are a cooing couple.
The Zorro parody film Zorro: The Gay Blade, in which Don Diego breaks his leg and his camp brother Bunny takes over.
However, he vehemently claims he is not "a fucking fag".
In the slasher film Maskhead, the contact the snuff film makers (a pair of Psycho Lesbians) have with their buyers is a cowboy who picks up men to fist and do other weird sexual things to.
He dates Earl's father's killer Yeah, it's that kind of movie.
In the Joshua Jackson film Lone Star State of Mind a.k.a Cowboys and Idiots, Earl's best friend is Jimbo, who is the stereotypical Texan cowboy mechanic, only that he's gay and there's a subplot throughout the film of him trying to get a date.
Also popular in Spaghetti Westerns with the Sissy Villain type: Django Kill, Sabata and The Grand Duel have flamboyantly gay baddies.
The two major gay male characters in the Canadian indie film Wilby Wonderful are both fans of Westerns.
Brokeback Mountain is famous for being the "gay cowboy movie", even though they're actually bisexual shepherds.
Fanon explains Ben himself to be gay as well, though the film only shows him as attracted to women (he sleeps with one).
3:10 to Yuma (2007), where Charlie "Princess" is almost outright stated to be gay (especially for his boss, Ben Wade).
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One arc of Garth Ennis's "Marvel Knights" series of The Punisher featured a gay sheriff in a modern-day Western story.
Jinny Hex, Jonah's great-great-granddaughter and a member of Young Justice (2019), takes after Jonah and is a lesbian, though she exists in the present day, so it's only in concept and she isn't defined by the rejection and isolation of this trope.
A bit of Deliberate Values Dissonance in the New 52 All-Star Western, where Hex, transported to the Present Day, takes offence at being called a cowboy, claiming that they're all gay.
In the 2000 series, Hex faces off against a Gay Cowboy who goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the town where his partner was killed.
His over-hyped sexuality caused the books to be rated inappropriate for minors to read, even though the only indication he was gay was through certain innuendos and implications.
Marvel Comics' Rawhide Kid in the eponymous 2003 limited series (but not in regular continuity, Earth 616 appearances).