He hadn't seen any actual sexuality on the rodeo circuit. But he didn't deny that friendships in that very macho community were stronger than other bonds. He questioned the validity of my research but he couldn't deny that eroticism.

Human language can only work in broad categories. We create words for things, even though words have a danger of confining things. People will always be bigger than the words we use to describe them, and words will always have the tendency to give us narrow views. But this danger shouldn’t keep us from using words. I am a man; I am American; I am single; I am 5’10”; I am hungry; I am tired: I am happy: I am sad; I am studious; I am foolish; I am fallen; I am sinful; I am hopeful; I am inquisitive; and I am gay. I’m not just any one of these things, but I am all of these things. You could ask me to not categorize myself in terms of my sexual identity because I am not just my sexuality; but if you’re going to do that, you might as well not ask me to categorize myself at all.

We would be the first people to sign up to put that rodeo in this events center.

It's the last frontier. That's absolutely essential to what we do as Americans. We have a tradition of crossing boundaries, challenging frontiers that no other nation has. In the wilderness there are no impossibilities. In that arena you find a really unique, very fierce American perspective.

I would love to talk to Twain and find out what he would say. I think he would have a real fun twinkle in his eye, then deny it forever.

It's going to give our speedway one of the most competitive tracks on the circuit.