'Brokeback Mounta' Ushered a New Era of Gay Cema

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In honor of the ten-year anniversary of the release of the inic gay Wtern, we spoke to B. Ruby Rich, the film scholar who ed the term 'new queer cema,' to discs the evolutn of gayns on the silver screen.

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WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘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?

'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' USHERED A NEW ERA OF GAY CEMA

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It’s hard to believe but 15 years have passed sce the inic gay film Brokeback Mounta was released. "However, the directors warned uld lose 's stat as the ultimate gay movie as queer cema evolv and the film dtry starts to embrace LGBT reprentatn Insir's homepage for more stori. 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.

NOT A GAY MOVIE

Though was often far oversimplified as “the gay wboy movie,” Brokeback Mounta nohels beme a worldwi phenomenon upon s release 15 years ago today. It should have also bee a Bt ... * gay brokeback mountain *

"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.

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'Brokeback Mounta' Ushered a New Era of Gay Cema .

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