And that movie was made so excruciatingly “pretty” by Ang Lee, so as to be even more powerful in delivering its hokey but destructive stereotypes. And how hilariously dated, with Gay Marriage cooking all over just a few years later. For Brokeback reinforced the Belief (probably among all too many stuck gay people TOO), that gay love is Tragic, Hopeless and Doomed. It DRIPPED in gay stereotypes, in its quest (perhaps unconscious) to deliberately (or cynically) let fear-based, straight mom-n-pop movie-goers feel all warm and “sympathetic” for us “poor tortured gay dears.” What a SWEET story. I wish more gay people would just GET what a disgusting anti-gay perpetration Brokeback Mountain was.