Chaps brings you to an unexpected event in the center of Oklahoma— a year's worth of travel, competition, and performances lead up to the World Gay Rodeo Finals, where families, drag queens, and cowboys gather to celebrate western traditions. The days bring a slew of nonstop, action packed rodeo events, and the nights host displays of skilled, comedic, and emotional Royalty Pageants. But beneath the dust and rhinestones is a group of folks who have become a true family. There are people who have rodeoed since the 1980s and people who have picked it up in the last year, those whose families come to support them in the arena and those who have found new family through rodeo. Through audio interviews woven with action and performance footage, Chaps captures both the grit and the grace of the rodeo lifestyle that emphasizes acceptance and love above all else.