I know this is a little late, but I want to complain about watching Brokeback Mountain in a theater full of gay people.
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Or maybe, ASIF, Jack and Ennis’s predicament seems faintly ridiculous to liberated gay men who, naturally enough, regard the Tortured Homo Routine–from Giovanni’s Room to Fame to Brokeback Mountain–as more laughable than tragic. Or maybe you had the misfortune of seeing Brokeback in a room full of vapid LA faggots who wouldn’t know an honest emotion if it blew a three-day load down their throats.
Oh, and speaking of tortured homos: Three men were arrested last week in rural North Carolina and charged with castrating willing victims in their dungeon. “Richard Sciara, 61, Danny Reeves, 49, and Michael Mendez, 60,” according to one report, “admitted performing at least eight surgeries, including castrations and testicle replacements, on six consenting clients over the past year. None of the three is licensed to practice medicine. . . . Each man faces ten felony counts–five each of castration without malice and conspiracy to commit castration without malice–as well as eight misdemeanor counts of performing medical acts without a license.”
You can’t write about sex and avoid politics–not in America, at any rate, and now, thanks to Stephen Harper’s minority government, not in Canada either. Believe me, KITY, I’d love to see sex and politics decoupled, but your fellow conservatives–actually, wait. Why should I come to my own defense when a genuine New York Jew Commie Bastard wants to do the job?
Straight Rights Update: Black Jack, Missouri, is currently deciding whether or not it will issue an occupancy permit to an unmarried straight couple with three kids. (Occupancy permit? Who’d guess you need one to move to Black Jack, Missouri?) Currently the couple doesn’t meet Black Jack’s definition of family, and they’ve already been denied their occupancy permit once. If the city denies them again, the couple will have to either move or marry under duress. So let’s just add forced marriages to the long list of right-wing assaults on heterosexual freedom, shall we?
