For the public good, I'm posting this link to an excellent article about Misunderstanding Brokeback Mountain, in which the author neatly articulates what I've been so far incapable of articulating
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anonymous
January 18 2006, 10:41:54 UTC
first off I am gay but certainly not "queer" I have lived my entire life in Montana where redneck is a compliment and if you are efemminate you are automatically labeled queer! I am just {as my friends who know me} just a dude!! I am taking the bus this morning to the only town in this state that is showing this film with high expectations of experiencing a cinimatographic masterpiece with a positive climax. However I also realize that my hopes may once again be dashed and I will have to face the fact that we really are just second class citizens {with style!!!}
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It's rather like the point that you make (subtly) in Third, that love is about people, not about a specific sort of pairing.
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