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Kevin Platte, founder and Artistic Director, started the dance company in August 1994 after seeing a similar troupe in California.

Over the years, the company raised funds for HIV/AIDS organizations by sharing the profits of their calendar sales.

[1] Performance highlights included America's Got Talent television show, season 3, NBC, semifinalists (2008);[3] the Closing Ceremonies of the Gay Games VII at Wrigley Field in Chicago (2006); The Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary (2009–2012); Dales' Great Getaway television show, ITV London, England (2012); The Podge and Rodge television show, RTE, Dublin, Ireland (2010).

[4] At the time of their closing, they had had 82 dancers, or "cowboys", and raised thousands of dollars with 455 performances.

The National Museum of American History's Archives Center acquired their records in 2013.

Ephemera from DC Cowboys Dance Company, a performing arts organization for gay men founded in 1994. Collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Archives Center. LGBT Collection (NMAH.AC.1146, box 34).