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Contents:
- 8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN
- WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
- 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'
- THAT “GAY COWBOY MOVIE”QUEER PEOPLE REFLECT ON 15 YEARS OF “BROKEBACK MOUNTA”
- JAKE GYLLENHAAL DISCS GAY RUMORS, HEATH LEDGER DURG ‘INSI THE ACTOR’S STUD’ (VIO)
8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN
Eight of the most realistic gay sex scen morn cema, cludg Shank, Brokeback Mounta, Shortb, Bent, Freier Fall, David's Birthday and more. * brokeback mountain gay scene *
Scene om Freier Fall, a German film about gay ps Marc and Kay. Queerty recently did a great roundup of the most realistic gay sex scen morn cema — verg everythg om Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger’s magil moment that tent on Brokeback Mounta to some newer offergs like Blue is the Warmt Color, which jt premiered Philly at the Philalphia Film, you’ll fd clips (when available) of all the selectns wh lks to where you n fd them on Netflix (when available.
It’s hard to believe but 15 years have passed sce the inic gay film Brokeback Mounta was released. In this regular lumn, we’ll look at pictns of queers cema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays?
G Van Sant had tried to direct (he pched to Matt Damon, who turned down bee he had already played a gay man and a wboy before and didn’t want to do both aga); Mark Wahlberg was once nsired for the lead, but he turned down bee, duh, ’s about gay guys.
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
It's hard to believe but 15 years have passed sce the inic gay film was released. * brokeback mountain gay scene *
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. The Pros: In terms of basic visibily, Brokeback Mounta was a huge w for the gays.
'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'
* brokeback mountain gay scene *
) And what better way to stoke the classic homophobic fire by makg wboys (OK, technilly they’re “ranch hands, ” but, you know, they’re wboys) — the most classic image of good old Amerin masculy — a ltle queer? But is there anythg one uld actually suggt wasn’t good for the gays Brokeback Mounta?
You uld make an argument that do ph a “gay agenda” as all of those nservative talkg heads suggted. After all, prents the gay experience as somethg that is normal and ordary; the only extraordary thg about , fact, is that there are people out there so disgted by the ia of men havg sex wh other men that they take their homophobia to such extrem — eher issug verbal or physil asslts on those they have emed unsirable bee of their own private sexual practic. I will say, however, that ’d be nice to see a film that teach lsons about tolerance and empathy but did not also require vlent imagery which a gay man is the victim.
THAT “GAY COWBOY MOVIE”QUEER PEOPLE REFLECT ON 15 YEARS OF “BROKEBACK MOUNTA”
…although maybe Anne Hathaway’s hair is the proof that a gay man did work on this film, and he had an amazg sense of humor? Then aga, Anna Faris’ wig is downright atroc and that gay man should have been fired for that hairle. And the one gay sex scene was dimly l and fully clothed, while Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway both appeared topls.
It’s a movie about gay people livered through the lens of straight people, and the straight gaze here is very thick. Then aga, ’s probably valuable for people to see and unrstand the “normalcy, ” whatever that means (however they fe , I gus), of the gay experience.
It’s a betifully filmed, stunngly acted tear-jerker, and ultimately do more good than harm, bee sometim I fet, until I do silly thgs like read the Netflix er reviews of this perfectly fe, tolerable, and harmls film, that there are people out there who believe credibly stupid and tolerable thgs about gay people and I am so grateful that I don’t have to al wh them my personal life:. 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?
JAKE GYLLENHAAL DISCS GAY RUMORS, HEATH LEDGER DURG ‘INSI THE ACTOR’S STUD’ (VIO)
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. While the film would fally allow a lot of queer dience members to fally see a tenr and timate reprentatn of themselv a major motn picture, also received an unsurprisg luge of homophobic jok and sults.
Much of the ments stemmed om the film's sex scen, which, while rather tame when viewed today, were some of the more graphic gay love scen that many dience members had been exposed to at that pot. For Ledger, he didn't thk of as a "gay" love scene, as many actors of that time surely would have.