Pride, Brokeback Mountain and the past GLBTQ year

SF Chronicle article on the past year for GLBTQ rights, with mentions of the part Brokeback Mountain played in bringing issues to the public attention.

Fabulous Brokeback T-Shirts

A fellow Brokebackie name of Jenny has created a wonderful collection of Brokeback Mountain t-shirts. And all proceeds go to the Matthew Shepard Foundation. In Jenny's own words:

Most people know that Matthew was killed in a horrible hate crime outside of Laramie, Wyoming in 1998, about a year after the short story was first published. The foundation was created in Matthew's memory to increase love, tolerance, and compassion in the world as it educates people about hatred and homophobia. In making my shirts, I wanted to help people share their love of BBM with the public at large, and also translate their love (and grief) into a positive and tangible contribution that will go toward making the world safer and better for the real-life Jacks and Ennises still struggling to live and love freely in this world. Because of the geographical and other connections between Matthew's story and the story of Brokeback, it was the only place I ever considered sending my profits.

Tomorrow, Sunday 6/25, she'll be selling them at NY's Pridefest (on Hudson near LeRoy). Details, Replies 26 & 27. Check 'em out, and buy 2 or 3 for everyone you know!

Ennis' wooden horse

A picture of your humble correspondent holding the carved horse and knife from Brokeback Mountain (photo courtesy of Brett of The Back to Brokeback Project).

Castro Brokeback Mountain

It is a great and wonderful thing for Brokebackers, Brokebackites and Brokaholics to gather in fellowship and watch The Movie on the Big Screen together.  Last night in the Castro was wonderful, both getting together before the movie and meeting some of the online folks (both Ultimate Bb Forum and BetterMost.net), and getting to see Brokeback Mountain again on the big screen.  (By the way, there's still time - it's showing today and tomorrow, 6/13-14.)  People came from as far away as New York, Alaska and Samoa to see it again.  And such interesting, beautiful, gentle people! And I got to actually hold the wooden horse and knife that Heath/Ennis was using in the tent on that first Brokeback Summer! A holy relic of Our Boys of Brokeback!

 

Many thanks to all who helped put the event together, and to all who attended. Others have said it better than I at: http://davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=9547.45 (see Replies 55 & 56.)

Brokeback Mountain Fever Returns

Tomorrow is the Big Day: I'm gonna see Brokeback Mountain on the big screen again, at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. And I seem to be relapsing into Brokeback Mountain Fever: obsessing about the movie, emotionally fragile, feeling there couldn't be anything else as important as The Movie.

And a bonus: Tomorrow has been declared "Brokeback Mountain Day" in San Francisco. Details at (see Reply #36): http://davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=9547.30