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DENVER – The Colorado Gay Rodeo Association is hosting the 41st annual Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo at the National Western Complex on July 12, 13, and 14. They have come a long way from when they started.
"Pongo and I will be doing a lot of events. We’ve got four events,” Hiller said. “He's all excited. It's Pongo's first rodeo, but we're going to be doing pole bending. We're going to be doing flag racing. That's our favorite. He loves flags. Everybody watching us for that one. We'll do barrel racing, and then we'll do mounted breakaway calf roping."
“In a regular rodeo, you’re not always allowed to compete in barrel racing as a man,” Hiller said. “Here, at our gay rodeo, Pongo and I are super excited to be able to compete in barrel racing. And then we also let women bull ride and steer ride and do all of that.”
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