I really don’t think that the actors in Brokeback Mountain are gay. I don’t think that they should feel the need to defend their sexuality or prove that they are straight in any way. I’m not even sure if the fact that Heath Ledger had an onset romance or that Jake Gyllenhaal filmed a war movie was a conscious effort to prove their masculinity, movie schedules are sometimes random and Ledger and Williams got married so something must have been real. The driving issue in this quandary is not that they “proved” that they were not gay, its our society’s (when I say that I only have experience America and the UK, although I highly suspect this is a global issue) obsession with celebrities, their personal lives, and just generally what other people do behind closed doors. I mean really? It’s almost impossible to turn on the tube without coming across some reality show about famous people in rehab or something like that, or rich housewives taking their kids to get their nails done, etc. I don’t feel that the actors in Brokeback Mountain were homophobic or that our society, in general, is; I honestly think that we just love a scandal and no one wants people to think that they’re something that they’re not. But that’s just my opinion.
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