Feedback: Brokeback Gay or Not?
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 03:41 PM
Subject: Gay?
The Heath Ledger character isn't gay. He's a straight man who finds
the kind of love he needs being a very love and touch-deprived man from another man who is more able to give love than the women in both their lives.
-ED
Subject: Brokeback Mountain - YES ITS GAY
Of course it's a gay movie.
Gay men in a straight world is still a gay experience. I'm gay and I
get so tired of all of the annoying, political over-analyzing in our community. Just call it what it is at face value ... a gay movie. I can't imagine my straight cousins and brothers huddleded around a TV watching this movie while drinking beers after a long day of riding dirtbikes.
Maybe the mainstream gay community would think it would be "gay" if
they had some crystal meth and some Techno and/or House music.
-BC
Subject: From Wyoming
I'm from the West - and having thought about this and talked to Gay men who grew up there, I have reached the following conclusion:
To be gay, I think is to be able to organize your life around that identity around your sexuality. BBM isn't just about a same sex love. It's a same sex love in the West. The characters in BBM are grasping toward being gay but can't because of their particular circumstances. I'm not talking about being closeted. I'm talking about having the time - literally to be able to indulge in that much individuality. That's the thing about the West. No one is able to have that degree of flexibility - that degree of self reflection. That's the tragedy of the film. Some how Jack longs for more. And that's the really beautiful thing to - that in such harsh surroundings human beings have the capacity to dream and to find a great love.'
It's this connection to the West that confuses things for people-NM
Subject: it's neither gay nor homosexual
Brokeback Mountain is neither "gay" nor "homosexual". It's a solemn, middle-brow Hollywood movie, trading in age-old cliches. The sexual orientation of the protagonists is all but irrelevant.
-JP
Subject: brokeback is not gay
i am a gay man and a film maker and i typically hate "gay" movies
because they reduce being gay to a collection of pre packaged issues--
i loved brokeback mountain because it is just a plain-old great
movie--an unusually believable love story
-TF
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