Posted on 02/06/2006 12:50:55 PM PST by SmithL
New York -- Jim Gilbert gets goosebumps just thinking about Oscar night.
"It'll be such an important night," says the 61-year-old amateur cowboy and rodeo competitor, who feels that "Brokeback Mountain" tells the story of his own gay life and struggles in a strikingly personal way.
Gay activist groups are anticipating the March 5 Academy Awards, where "Brokeback Mountain" is favored to win as many as eight Oscars, as a rallying point and a crucial moment for their cause.
One group likens it to the April 1997 moment when Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on her sitcom. Susanne Salkind of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay rights group, said Oscar night will be an opportunity to raise gay issues "to another level in American culture."
Last Friday, the group sent e-mails to 120,000 members, encouraging them to hold house parties on Oscar night — just as it did the night DeGeneres came out. It's also sending out "Oscar party kits" to help in recruiting, and is offering prizes of T-shirts, bags and watches, depending on how many new members get signed up.
"We want to transform this social occasion into something much more important," Salkind said.
When Ang Lee's soulful film about two cowboys in love premiered in December, the gay community was delighted — but, in some corners, skeptical that it would play beyond New York and California.
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What if they gave an Academy Awards, and nobody watched?
Golly, they already have the Tony's.
I won't.
But then, I haven't watched any of those self-congratulatory cluster-fests in years.
I thought they didn't "recruit".
As far as the Oscars, I'm sure it will be a gay event.
The gays are getting people more and more fed up IMO and the movie business is losing money.
Hollywood can have them. I certainly won't be watching - not that I do very often anyway, but definitely not this year.
They're always looking for new "members" doncha know.
They're always looking for new "members" doncha know.
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units, packages, tools. They just collect everything.
I must add this nonsense to yet another network show I never view.
When an actual homosexual wins one of these "trophies", what do you suppose they do with it?
Where would you suppose they put it? I'll TELL you where. They put it right up their ^&*(%*$*! THats where.
That will be the case this year.....
Due to the filth being peddled at the Oscars, I predict very low ratings.
What? Homosexuals prancing with glee over the love-fest at the Oscars? Hoping with girlish hope that their gay- sheepherders-on-parade film will beat out the Hollywood terror-symp movies and make everyone want to emulate them?
I must have stumbled into a bizarre alternate universe.
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Is capitalize some sort of slang for gay sex?
They ought to just change the title of The Academy Awards, to The Tony Awards II.
These people are nuts. Ellen's show went from first to worst right after she came out of the closet.
If that was a high point in the gay agenda, then bring it on.
Gee kind of sounds like the whole thing is a staged,phony spectacle for the sole purpose of promoting a deviant lifestyle.
Nah,Hollywood would`nt do that would they?
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