or embraced with quite the same zeal. Sure, there was Jon Voight's portrayal of Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy (1969), Robert La Tourneaux's "Cowboy" in The Boys in the Band (1970), Richard Gere's Julian in American Gigolo (1980), and Woody Harrelson's depiction of a Washington, D.C. escort in The Walker (2007). But few people nurture