Ubiquitous Gayness: Cowboys on the Down Low

A “once-taboo” topic is coming to a big screen near you. Hollywood has entered the “new frontier” with the wide release of a gay love story, Brokeback Mountain. Seriously, I support reasonable gay rights like civil unions, and I’m fine with gays acting (gay) in movies; I really enjoyed “Six Feet Under.” But at one point do we say to Hollywood, “enough is enough.” I am strongly opposed to the wide release of a movie that depicts homosexuality as part of a healthy love or family life, as Brokeback Mountain does. (The story is about two married men–living on the down low–who “hook up” on intermittently.) I believe that this movie is but one part of a calculated effort by Hollywood to encourage Americans to accept gay relationships as the moral, familial and societal equal of heterosexual relationship. Slowly but surely, Hollywood is convincing Americans that being gay is just as normal, and maybe even preferable, to being heterosexual, as if there are no differences between heterosexual and homosexual relationships. Check out this review:

“Movie critics have been beating the drums for Brokeback Mountain ever since it snagged the top prize at the Venice International Film Festival in September. Because of the level of talent both in front of and behind the camera, and the universal themes of its love story, it’s viewed as a potential big prize winner and very possibly the film to usher gay cinema into the mainstream.“

“But a little online surfing shows how excited advocacy groups and gay movie goers are about the film. It’s reaching screens amid a flurry of other mostly smaller gay films with prominent names attached, which has caused some industry wags to proclaim 2005 the “Year of the Gay in Hollywood.”

“Brokeback Mountain doesn’t play it coy. Ledger and Gyllenhaal do things up in those hills that marquee names have never before done in a mainstream movie.”

TheStateOf…Gay Movies. Hollywood is going to have me voting Republican soon. Straight up.