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January 20, 2006 Volume 27, Number 2 Serving the Carolinas For Over 25 Years! Brokeback Mountain wins four Golden Globes ja- TD rashly predict that the big Hollywood Jf . question posed on the front page of The LobM Angeles Times after those stunning weekend % $ grosses - 'Can Brvkeback Mountain Move the > Heartland?' — will be answered with a resouding yes. All the signs of a runaway phenomenon are present, from an instant parody on Saturday Night live to the report that a multiplex in Plano, Tex., sold more ■ advance tickets for foe so-called 'gay cow boy picture' than for King Kong." — Columnist Frank Rich writing in The New York Times, Dec. 18. "The audience is forced to recognize that gay people were fixtures in foe red state of Si 'Wyoming (and every other comer of foe .. • country, too) long before Matthew Shepard H and Mary Cheney were bom. Without a sin- 3 gle polemical speech, fois laconic film dra- ' " matizes homosexuality as an inherent and ** lUlprwtabte identity, rather than sosne-abagtt fc* rant and elective 'agenda* concocted by spiratorial 'elites' in Chelsea, foe Castro and j South Beach, as anti-gay proselytizers > :. would have it. Ennis and Jack long for a life- § felogefoev not for what gay baiters pejora- § Ipvely label a ’lifestyle."' — Frank Rich, Dec. 18. haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain, nor do - I have any intention of seeing it., fm a very ^ « ; susceptible person, easily influenced, a nat ural-bom follower with no sales-resistanoe. {Wjho’s to say I won’t become enamored with the whole gay business?... I just know field day. You like three cowboys, don't • you? They're kind of cute. Go ahead, admit |j it they’re cute. You can't fool me, gay man. f Go ahead, stop fighting it. You’re gay! ■u You’re gay!’ Not that there's anything wrong < With if d;— Actor Larry David from the HBO TV series d f Curb Your Enthusiasm, writing in The New •. York Times, Jan. 1. I^Jack, who strikes me as a sexual predator ; ') tracks Ennis down and coaxes him into spo* > . radic trysts. But sporadic is not frequent enough for Jade. He wants Ennis full-time. continued page 4 Transamerica, Capote and Desperate Housewives Also Take Home Honors LOS ANGELES — The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is celebrat ing die success of lesbian, gay, bisex ual and transgender (LGBT) inclu sive films and television shows at the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards. Brokeback Mountain won 4 honors, including Dramatic Picture, Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Original Song. "This is yet another victory in Brokeback Mountain's growing list of accomplishments. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, like most critics, recognized the emotional authenticity of this film and its power to connect with both gay and straight audiences alike," said GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano. "The critical and award-winning success of movies like Brokeback Mountain, Capote and Transamerica should send a very dear message to Hollywood that there is a market for these kinds of smart, indusive films." 46% of all Golden Globe wins—11 out of 24 categories — came from LGBT inclusive projects. Other award highlights indude wins by Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) for Best Dramatic Actor, Felidty Huffman (Transamerica) for Best Dramatic Actress, and Desperate Housewives for TV Series, Musical or Comedy. For a complete list of these nomi nees and winners, visit glaad.org/eye/golden_ globes.php. GLAAD annually honors enter tainment and news projects for their fait accurate and indusive repre sentations of the LGBT community. The 17th Annual GLAAD Media Award nominations will be announced Monday, January 23, at the Sundance Film Festival. Lone chronicler may have influ enced Brokeback Mountain For years, Wisconsin writer Will Fellows's project seemed as isolated as its subject; the life experiences of gay men who grew up in Midwestern farm fami lies. Their lives span most of the twentieth century, an era when homosexual ity was wide ly believed to ut: ct t_uy thing, far removed from rural life. Fellows's 19% collection of first person accounts, Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest, remains the only book about this long-overlooked reality. Now, with Farm Boys having influenced the creation of a major continued page 4 agenews.com
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