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I read the short story Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx last year. The story is a heart-wrenching tale about two young ranch hands who meet on a job, and, much to their own surprise fall in love of the course of a summer. They aren't gay, and they are the very stereotype of tough gritty cowboys, but after an intimate summer, nothing is ever the same. If you haven't read it by now, just skip the literature (which I'm sure only women read anyway) and head for the movie theaters for the sake of a rarely told but probably quite common story. It's a story that will likely get entirely overlooked by the gay-bashing public at-large. It's about the complicated subject of love and how it often has to be denied because of the narrow-minded world we live in. It's about how everything isn't black & white when it comes to attraction. It's a subject that I wish was discussed more frequently and even half as eloquently as the hearthrob himself, Jake Gyllenhaal:

NEIL: And speaking of action figures, you've just finished a movie that would have very interesting action figures: [2005's] Brokeback Mountain. It's a Western, and it's a love story, but primarily between two men.
JAKE: Right.
NEIL: Did you ever wonder that people would start to whisper about the fact that you're playing a gay character? This country gets very funny about this issue.
JAKE: Actually, I had read the script when I was 16 years old, and I remember being totally terrified of it and thinking there's absolutely no way I could ever do that. And then it came back around to me, and now I'm 23 and have been in touch with love and the idea of what it is. Just a little glimpse of it and what it really is or can be, and I realized this movie could be about that—if you find love, fucking hold on to it. Keep it. Figure it out. No matter how complicated or fucked-up, it's worth the journey. That to me, is what this movie is about: Here are two human beings who happen to fall in love.
NEIL: And did you feel any fear, or did you sort of leap right into it?
JAKE: No, it scared the shit out of me the whole way.
NEIL: But that's a good thing, I've found, creatively speaking.
JAKE: Totally. I think I was scared just in the liberal sense, like, it was odd doing all the sex scenes and doing the really intimate things that I'm used to doing with women. And then, at the same time, it was just as odd playing a fucking cowboy, because I'm not a cowboy, you know what I mean? But it was probably scariest because it was really about love.

When I learned that Keith Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal were playing the lead roles, I must admit, I did an 80s psyche fist, crossed my eyes and had to sit down and fan myself. (Thank GOD for not casting Fabio!) Doesn't get hotter. This is like some mastermind's invention: sophista-porn. Literature transformed by two shirtless, kissing, skinnydipping tan-skinned hunky cowboys. Yum! See you at the movies!