Ang Lee film about gay cowboys wins Golden Lion at Venice
Sat Sep 10,11:28 PM ET
VENICE, Italy (AFP) - A film about homosexual love between two
cowboys, "Brokeback Mountain" by Ang Lee, won the Golden Lion for best
film as the curtain came down on the 62nd Venice Film Festival.
"I want to thank Annie Proulx for writing this moving great American
love story that brought all of us together to make this movie," said
the Taiwan-born Lee.
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There were and are lots of gay cowboys!
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Book Description
Was the American Cowboy gay? Judging from the earliest representations
of cowboys and other frontier figures in popular literature—who
typically preferred a "buddy" over a wife—the answer seems to be yes.
Evidence from books by nineteenth-century Western writers (from
legends such as James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and Owen Wister, to
more obscure novelists and diarists) shows how same-sex intimacy and
homoerotic admiration were key aspects of Westerns well before the
word "homosexual" and its synonyms were invented. American writers
celebrated erotic frontier friendships as alternatives to the lawless
violence that characterized stories about the early settlers’ fabled
lives. These males-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners,
Indians,and vaqueros defined themselves by excluding femininity and
the cloying ills of domesticity, while embracing what Roosevelt called
"strenuous living" with other bachelors in the relative"purity" of
wilderness conditions. Queer Cowboys recovers this forgotten culture
of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate
camaraderie in fiction, photographs, illustrations, song lyrics,
historicalephemera, and theatrical performances.
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