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Not wanting to give their foes free publicity, right-wing Christian groups say they won't boycott or picket "Brokeback Mountain."
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  • gay men get laid easily???

    maybe if your 20 and cute, but believe me, there are lots of gay men who can't get a date, much less laid....

  • I guess it's all relative, now if you'd ever had to deal with women....

    Actually it seems to be true that gay men often have an easy trme getting women to take an interest. I've often wondered how much of this ease is due to the fact that women respond well to men who aren't after them and how much, if any, is due to characteristics that make gay men innately more appealing to women.

  • By the way I forgot to mention I think there is a gay rodeo circuit

    Maybe not a circuit but definitely at least one gay rodeo.

  • Brokeback Mountain

    It looks as if the "Christian" Right did its damage to 'Brokeback Mountain' months ago when the movie was booked into theaters. First the film opened in five theaters; then so-called "general release" entailed sixty-nine theaters. It broke the all-time box office record per theater, but scarcely anyone outside of huge cities will have a chance to see it till it is released for home viewing. (My husband and I drove seventy-five miles each way to see it on its first day of release.)

    When first release occurred, the media coverage was all about whether the movie would find general acceptance at the box office. We'll never really find out, and the topic will be blamed for the low total monetary returns rather than the studio or perhaps the theaters, who practiced their own kind of censorship, probably to avoid problems with the religious bigots.