 Reno's group eventually fizzled, but Colorado has held a gay rodeo every year since 1983. Others sprung up in Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City. Candy Pratt attended her first gay rodeo in Texas after seeing a poster in a bar. I hadn't quite come out to my family yet, but it was a place where you could go and be openly gay, and it was just a place of safety at the time.