I think gay folks are just folks... people...human beings. Instead of having an inkling for the opposite sex, they have one for the same sex. I believe that a homosexual is born a homosexual, just like if you're heterosexual you're born heterosexual and that gay folks can no more turn off their attraction to the same sex as heterosexuals can turn off their attraction to the opposite sex. They're folks, like you, like me.
But to award a movie and actors for portraying people who are supposed to be not oddities, but like everyone else, is well, beyond me. Hollowood and gay advocacy groups say gays are just like everyone else and should be afforded the same "rights" (they are), dignities and place in society as "straight" folks (amen) and then Hollowood turns around and treats them as something out of a carnival or sci-fi movie (humanizing the creature), something is really really wrong with this picture.
I can not recall the last time a leading man in a dramatic love story has been noted for his acting ability. Can't think of one (Phoenix in Walk the Line played Johny Cash). But since the story of Brokeback Mountain is about a gay relationship, then this is really ACTING? What is the acting part? That Heath Ledger could ACT like he loves a man? This is DEEP... NOT. Crimeny.
If the point of awarding Brokeback Mountain the Golden Globe is to say that gay folks are like everyone else, then quit treating them like they're different, tell a good story and stop diminishing their humanity by pointing out how "normal" they really are and how acting like a gay is really ACTING.
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