Fear of Brokeback Mountain?

A very interesting commentary by columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. on why Brokeback Mountain scares some straight folk.

I find myself wondering if this primeval revulsion [toward Brokeback Mountain] doesn't speak less to our antipathy toward homosexuality than to our fears about masculinity.... I think gay men threaten our very conception of masculinity.

Many of us have known this for a long time, but if the popularity of this movie raises questions in more people's minds about the traditional idea of masculinity, that's a great thing. And when we realize that it was the traditional American masculinity of their fathers that psychologically brutalized Ennis and Jack as children and kept them from being able to love freely, we can dream and pray that that masculinity is threatened, questioned, changed, healed and replaced by love.

Read the whole column at: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13581184.htm