text:  I'm excited. I'm a little bit nervous. Cade Hiller, who's 27, is about to race through a course of poles on a horse for the first time. He says there are more accepting spaces for queer people today, but gay rodeo is still important, especially with rising anti-LGBTQ plus hate. No matter what happens, we're going to find a space to bring the horses together and bring the contestants together, and we're going to have a rodeo no matter what.