Angst-Ridden Homosexuals
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Are we really not that far beyond Boys in the Band?
With its angst-ridden homosexuals trapped in stifling relationships, Brokeback was the male version of 2002’s much-acclaimed The Hours—yet another movie that might have been executive-produced by Rick Santorum. The Hours weaves the story of mopey ole Virginia Woolf writing Mrs. Dalloway with the story of a lesbianish woman reading the same book in the 1950s as she tries to leave a passionless marriage. The unhappy wife’s story is also entwined with that of her son, a gay man who ends up with AIDS and is taken care of by another lesbian, Clarissa, played by Meryl Streep. Clarissa’s daughter, Julia (Claire Daines), sums up the joie de vivre of the film well when she observes: “Mom—all your friends are unhappy.”
Each subplot, see, deals with a gay person contemplating or committing suicide. Someone needs to help these gay people with their marketing!
The Decline of Straight Sex … and the Rise of Gay Entertainment
