How lovely.
"In the spirit of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist".(No mention of the Bafta's though.)
Unforgivable...LOL
Jennis.x
'Brokeback Mountain' theme of gay parade
By NATALIE STOREY | The New Mexican
June 16, 2006
The Santa Fe gay community won’t quit Brokeback Mountain.
In the spirit of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, the rugged cowboys who fall in love in the movie Brokeback Mountain, this year’s Pride on the Plaza festival will celebrate gay cowboys. The annual parade, which will be held June 24, has Brokeback as its theme. Among the floats will be members of the Gay Rodeo Association and their horses, which will have a gay rodeo clown/pooper scooper following them.
“It is a really important movie,” said Donald Stout, an organizer of Pride on the Plaza, Santa Fe’s annual celebration of the gay and lesbian community being held this week and next. “I think most people in the gay community felt that way about it. It busted apart a lot of stereotypes.”
The massive public dialogue that followed the movie has come to be called, The Brokeback Effect. Brokeback has spurred a number of trends from an increase in popularity of Western wear among gay men to popular jokes and even to an adjective used to describe something of questionable masculinity. A party, for example, that has too many men and too few women might now be described as “totally Brokeback.” Some people attribute the Willie Nelson song, Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other to the popularity of the movie.
Brokeback Mountain, which came out in 2005 and is based on a short story by E. Annie Proulx, won four Golden Globes and three Oscars.
The movie’s most important effect will be its challenge of stereotypes on both sides, said Jeff Lowe, who runs New Mexico’s gay rodeo, called the Zia Regional Rodeo, which will be held Aug. 17-20 in Albuquerque.
Not only do Jack and Ennis defy the popular icon of the Western cowboy, but they also cease to be flamboyantly gay, which, to many people, is the standard for what it means to be a gay man, Lowe said. “The old adage, don’t judge a book by its cover, really applies here,” he said.
Many of the Gay Rodeo Association’s members will be in Santa Fe next weekend to show off their stuff in the parade. The association celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
Pride on the Plaza is hoping to capitalize on that. Plus, Stout said, every gay man loves a good looking cowboy.
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