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AMERI'S WILD WT WAS SUPER GAY? WUT.
The tense male homosocialy of travel and exploratn, of lonome days on the range and all-night ttle driv, is heavily bound by vtments heterosexualy and heteronormativy: the hband's relentls fense of the fay homtead agast attacks by Indians and dnken outlaws; the settlement school mistrs's stctg children readg and arhmetic and “civilizatn” amid the ever-encroachg wilds of the Wt; the male adventurer's, explorer's, or prospector's evable return to his wag wife or his eventual, long-overdue of this changed wh the publitn of Annie Proulx's short story “Brokeback Mounta” 1997 and Ang Lee's film adaptatn 2005. Ask anyone who’s seen Brokeback Mounta (2005) to characterize the film three words, and you’re almost certa to hear some variatn of “gay wboy love-story.
Detractors, largely spearhead by right-wg and relig groups, quickly and fervently emed the film’s pictn of a homosexual uple immoral, evince of an attempt to femize men, and even anti-Amerin. In many s, crics honed on the two leads ’ occupatns as wboys, challengg the existence of a “gay wboy” Amerin history.
” Other crics acced filmmakers of phg an “agenda” onto Amerins, wh one wrg that “Hollywood screenwrers and producers thk that ’s their duty to teach Ameri that homosexual nduct and cross-drsg are normal behavrs that should be affirmed Amerin culture.