GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

I can't wait to see it....

hmmmmm...gay cowboys!!!! I can't wait!
A film about homosexual cowboys starring two of Hollywood's most popular sex symbols threatens to distort Wyoming's macho identity, traditionalists say.

Brokeback Mountain, based on a short story by E Annie Proulx, pairs Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as a cowboy and ranch hand fighting their secret desire for one another in the 1960s.

The film, directed by Oscar-winning Ang Lee, won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival this year and is already talked of as an Oscar contender.

But some residents in America's least populated state, home to only 500,000 people and famous for its ranchers, cattle and prairies, say the film, subtitled "Love is a force of nature", does the state a disservice.

Sandy Dixon, a playwright and lifelong Wyoming resident, told the Casper Star-Tribune that she had never encountered a homosexual cowboy and said those who knew "real cowboys "would dismiss the story as "hogwash".

2 Comments:

Blogger OreamnosAmericanus said...

I encourage you to read the short story, the last one in Annie Proulx's Close Range. If you are a gay man with a heart, you'll feel as if you are struck by lightning.

11:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sandy Dixon is a fool if she thinks there were never any gay cowboys.

5:18 PM  

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