Was It Good For The Gays: ‘Brokeback Mounta’ | Decir

Contents:

• 8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN
• 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'
• WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
• THAT “GAY COWBOY MOVIE”QUEER PEOPLE REFLECT ON 15 YEARS OF “BROKEBACK MOUNTA”

8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN

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'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'

Wh such popular actors volved, even some of the more homophobic members of the early ghts dience were willg to shell out for movie tickets to see what this gay wboy movie was all about.

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JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'

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The tragic love story of Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Brokeback Mounta" has been ptivatg viewers — gay and straight alike — sce the film me out 2005. Has she jt told this paful story so many tim that she's grown numb to , or is actually fictn, signed to ver up the embarrassg circumstanc of Jack's ath — nnected to his homosexualy, maybe? Though Ennis and Jack never ll themselv "gay" or "queer, " they do love each other and share a sexual relatnship.

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WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’

We've had the first-ever mastream LGBT rom- "Love, Simon, " cultural juggernts like "Call Me By Your Name" and "Carol, " about three Disney movi featurg Disney's "first-ever" LGBTQ character ("Bety and the Beast, " "Onward, " and "Zootopia"), and "Moonlight, " which did what "Brokeback Mounta" uldn't and beme the first-ever queer movie to w bt picture at the Amy "Brokeback Mounta" is still viewed as the go-to gay movie. It has a Rotten Tomato sre of 87%, and most crics were enamoured wh the movie the moment first h Calhoun, wrg for Time Out, said: "Lee has taken a story of gay love and placed where should be — the mastream.

"Strikg a siar was Roger Ebert, wrg for the Chigo Sun-Tim: "'Brokeback Mounta' has been scribed as 'a gay wboy movie, ' which is a cel simplifitn. "Brokeback Mounta" straddl this le expertly, prentg their leadg queer characters and their forbidn love wh so much sympathy that turns to are gay, and while most dience members may not unrstand exactly what is like to love someone, and be somethg, that is emed so taboo uld lead you to tastrophe, or, "Brokeback Mounta's" se, ath, Lee's movie picts forbidn love, somethg a lot of people know of, so expertly and touchgly that 's hard not to get sucked to rg thoroughly about the characters — whether you're gay or Lee is rponsible for that.

The gay nversn mp drama "Boy Erased, " while ably acted by s st (particularly Lus Hedg), almost seems sred of the subject matter. It felt tailored to straight dienc, whereas "Brokeback Mounta, " while not exactly tailored to queer dienc the way that a morn TV show like "Pose" is, is so direct s pictn of queer love and the dangers of beg gay that feels absolutely Johnson, the queer director of Netflix's "Alex Strangelove" spoke to Insir about the impact that Lee's movie had on him as a viewer as well as a filmmaker.

THAT “GAY COWBOY MOVIE”QUEER PEOPLE REFLECT ON 15 YEARS OF “BROKEBACK MOUNTA”

"I me out as gay durg the time 'Brokeback Mounta' me out, so cid wh this time of me feelg like I uldn't live a lie anymore and wantg to fally embrace fully who I am, " Johnson told Insir. But also those feelgs of like 'if you're gay, you're gay. "I remember before me out, I was nervo, and people were jokg about 'oh, 's the gay wboy movie.