[radiohead]

I saw a preview of this movie with a friend. I'd never heard of it, but she had read a lot of press in which the gay aspect was played up quite a bit. However, when you see the preview, it seems pretty clear that these guys aren't gay, but got carried while riding the range one night. These are not 'gay cowboys,' tho the gay press may want to make them so.

Personally, I can't tell you how unnerved I got watching the preview. I know lots of gay people, it isn't that, it's the image of the American cowboy being used this way. I felt like I had been slapped. I'm sure there were cowboys who took advantage of a lonely night on the prairie and did some things they didn't want to talk about later. I'm sure there are gay cowboys. I'd just rather not see it in a movie. Must we destroy all of our cultural icons?

[mattdono]

Must we destroy all of our cultural icons?

No, we mustn't. Hollyweird and the whacko left that controls Hollyweird must and will continue to do so.

[dennisw]

My thoughts too!Liberal scum want to trash all that is good in the American lore and myth. So the cowboys of the West are the next.

[sgtbono2002]

Well ya know you are probably right about cownoys on a lonesome night taking advantage, but I doubt they took advantage of a queer, More likely a good looking hereford.

[Guenevere]

well, according to the movie's website synopsis, the cowboys not only had that one night but reattached years later, and carried it forward......homes and family notwithstanding.

[visualops]

I saw a preview of this movie with a friend. I'd never heard of it, but she had read a lot of press in which the gay aspect was played up quite a bit. However, when you see the preview, it seems pretty clear that these guys aren't gay, but got carried while riding the range one night. These are not 'gay cowboys,' tho the gay press may want to make them so.

I suggest you read any synopsis of this movie and you'll see it is exactly a gay movie, and in fact it seems as if they mean to convey that the men's love for each other endures and transcends time and their marriages to women. I think this is an activist movie that means to show that gay love is not only acceptable, but better than hetero love, and that the "normal" paths people take with their lives are unfulfilling when compared to this supposed eternal gay love.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Must we destroy all of our cultural icons?"

Well, obviously not; the Clintons still walk free. *Rolleyes*

I agree, though. Enough is enough. And really, both these guys are talented actors. They need to fire the agents that told them that THIS movie was their 'Stairway to the Stars.' Yeesh!

(And remember, Hollywood tried to fool us with "Million Dollar Baby," too.)

[kcvl]

Set in Texas and Wyoming, this is the romantic tale of two male cowboys from very different backgrounds who meet and fall in love while working together as sheep ranch hands near Wyoming's Brokeback Mountain the summer of 1961. Their lives take different courses, however, with Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) becoming a rodeo cowboy while Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) remains a ranch hand, and the film follows their lives as they see each other again over the next 20 years. Their relationship is rocky, however, as they must deal with the challenges posed as the intolerance of pre-(and post)-Stonewall rural America rears its ugly, violent head against the two lovers.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I'm sure there were cowboys who took advantage of a lonely night on the prairie and did some things they didn't want to talk about later.

I guess it happened on ships at sea all the time, too. They even had a "peg boy" to be at the ready for some good lovin'. Obviously in prison, too.