In 1992 seven men hanging out at Badlands Saloon in Las Vegas, committed to bring gay rodeo home to the state of Nevada where it all began. It was decided Las Vegas needed to form its own gay rodeo association.

That year the Southern Nevada Gay Rodeo Association was born and gained fifty new members in the first year.

The name was altered that same year to the Nevada Gay Rodeo Association to represent the entire state NGRA took it's place as the 13th membership delegation at the IGRA convention in Minnesota.