ASGRA Board

The ASGRA Board is responsible for the organization operations and administration. The Board meets officially once a month.

ASGRA's Mark Smith brings home the IGRA Mx. Royalty Title

ASGRA's Mark Smith, aka Daddy Duchess, has won the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) Royalty Title of Mx. for 2026. Mark competed in the IGRA Royalty competition at World Gay Rodeo Finals in Reno, Nevada. The Finals kicks off the 50 year anniversary of gay rodeo events.

The title of Mx. is a recent addition to the gay rodeo royalty. Mr., Ms., Miss and MsTer are the other four. Gay rodeo royalty is one of the ways gay rodeo associations promote the sport of rodeo. Royalty serve as representatives of their association in their respective titles as well as raising funds through various events for charity and gay rodeo.

Mark is ASGRA's Mx. title holder for 2025, and ASGRA is very proud that Mark is now a part of the International Gay Rodeo Royalty Team.

See photos and video on our Facebook page.

ASGRA's August 16 - 17, 2025 Rodeo School Was Hot but Fun

18 registrants attended our our 2025 rodeo school in Newtown, PA, August 16 & 17. It was a little bit of a hot one as the registrants learned the 101 basics of rodeo competition.

Saturday featured lessons in saddling and tacking horses and learning and practicing skills in flag racing, barrel racing, pole bending. We split the registrants into two groups to ensure that each group had more individualized time and attention from our instructors. For those who were not on horseback Saturday, our instructors worked with them on calf roping on foot and goat dressing skills.

Sunday was instruction was in our steer decorating and chute dogging events. Registrants also got to practice more of their calf roping on foot sills with our dummy calf on wheels as well as doing some additional instruction and practice in goat dressing.

Look for photos and video to come on our Facebook and Instagram pages.