TV's Larry David won't
be seeing Brokeback Mountain. He says, in fact,
cowboys would have to lasso me, drag me into the theater and tie me to the seat, and even then I would make every effort to close my eyes and cover my ears.
But rest assured, some of his best friends are gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Meanwhile, in Britain's The Guardian, John Patterson
remarks that the American western "has always throbbed with
latent homoeroticism." And that Brokeback
wouldn't be in the least controversial...were America not unimaginably neurotic and puritanical about sex, straight or gay, in the first place.
He could call Larry David as his first witness.
More: Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post's movie critic, presents a similar examination in a piece titled Out in the West: Reexamining A Genre Saddled With Subtext."
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