Posted on 02/10/2006 1:14:33 PM PST by presidio9
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gay cowboys try, as best they can, to quit one another. They marry women, start families. But their wives are crushed when they realize their husbands don't, and can't, ever really love them. "Brokeback Mountain" makes clear that it would have been better for all concerned if Jack and Ennis had lived in a world where they could simply be together.
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Straight audiences are watching and loving "Brokeback Mountain" — that's troubling to evangelical Christians who have invested a decade and millions of dollars promoting the notion that gay men can be converted to heterosexuality, or become "ex-gay." It is, they insist, an ex-gay movement, although I've never met a gay man who was moved to join it.
This "movement" demands more from gay men than simply playing straight. Once a man can really pass as ex-gay — once he's got some Dockers, an expired gym membership and a bad haircut — he's supposed to become, in effect, an exgay missionary, reaching out to the hostile gay tribes in such inhospitable places as Chelsea and West Hollywood.
What should really trouble evangelicals, however, is this: even if every gay man became ex-gay tomorrow, there still wouldn't be an ex-lesbian tomboy out there for every ex-gay cowboy. Instead, millions of straight women would wake up one morning to discover that they had married a Jack or Ennis.
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Sometimes I wonder if evangelicals really believe that gay men can go straight. If they don't think Chad Allen can play straight convincingly for 108 minutes, do they honestly imagine that gay men who aren't actors can play straight for a lifetime? And if anyone reading this believes that gay men can actually become exgay men, I have just one question for you: Would you want your daughter to marry one?
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By contrast 20 years ago, "Platoon" was the highest grossing movie at $140 million, which was 1986 dollars.
that is music to my eyes
Good one. Gee, I wonder why he is not married yet. Must be looking for the right one.
you guys are far too generous with your timeline, IMO. at the rate things are going, it would be 20-35 years.
I could never marry an ex-gay man. the thought of what he used to do would gag me constantly.
I dunno, but Mark Steyn said they opened at 453 more theatres after the AA nominations, and sales fell 13%.
Tony Snow has been using "Brokebackin'" as a euphemism for gay sheep herders knockin' farts.
Troy Aikman IS married. That's his wife in post 34.
Try as I might; flunked it every single time. Curiously; my wife knew always knew where the ball was. Hmmmm...
Four words: Show Me the Money!
The problem w/ this movie (okay, one of probably many) is that even straight men who aren't opposed to gay men doing what is it is they as long as it doesn't concern them, don't want to watch gay men doing what ever it is that they do.
Sigh!!
I'm old enough to remember when Elton John wasn't (openly) gay!
"Straight audiences are watching and loving Brokeback Mountain".
This "straight audience" would not spend my hard earned money to even go see it.
A very long time ago, there was an online talk radio station called Talkspot. It was mostly conservative hosts like James Golden, however there was one liberal hostess, Erin Hart, who had the author of this article on. He proceeded to say, without an evidence, that conservatives actually had more perverted sex lives than liberals. Given how unlikely it is that a conservative would give such an obvious left wing bigot the time of day, we can treat any statement he makes as being a lie until proven otherwise.
Regards, Ivan
My bad.
I knew you weren't a slummer!
****LAUGHTER****
They're milking the "bareback" movie for all its worth.
There, fixed.
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