It's hard to believe but 15 years have passed sce the inic gay film was released.
Contents:
- WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
- JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'
- 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' USHERED A NEW ERA OF GAY CEMA
- JAKE GYLLENHAAL: ‘IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT’ TO BREAK STIGMA OF PLAYG GAY ROL WH ‘BROKEBACK’
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTA’
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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.
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.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'
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. * gay movie brokeback mountain *
It’s fluence on popular culture nnot be nied, for better or for worse — ne years later, people are still makg gay wboy jok.
'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' USHERED A NEW ERA OF GAY CEMA
) 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?
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.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL: ‘IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT’ TO BREAK STIGMA OF PLAYG GAY ROL WH ‘BROKEBACK’
…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? 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.