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WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
In this regular lumn, we’ll look at pictns of queers cema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays?
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Conservative groups issued boytts of the film, polil punds acced of phg a gay agenda, and notorly lost the Amy Award for Bt Picture to Crash; many crics acced Amy voters of homophobia, as the film was the bt-reviewed release of the year, and, spe the Osr loss, was also the year’s most honored film. And, as most gay dramas, has an unhappy endg: Twist di, likely murred for beg gay. It’s fluence on popular culture nnot be nied, for better or for worse — ne years later, people are still makg gay wboy jok.