#jack twist

[phantom-threaded]

Brokeback Mountain 2005, dir. Ang Lee

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015) Brokeback Mountain (2005)

[peachpitdiaries]

happy pride month

[magneticghouls]

i wish i knew how to quit you // does it fucking kill you, too?

[gumiibugz]

Butch4butch brokeback mountain

[smoky-solitude]

When Brokeback Mountain came out in 2005, it was allotted two on screen gay kisses and two on screen sex scenes. It has tension and yearning oozing from every interaction. It’s an absolutely phenomenal movie. Yet it didn’t win Best Picture. It became a joke, with people laughing at the most heartwrenching scenes in the movie. When the Oscars invited Ledger and Gyllanhaal to present the 2007 Oscars provided they joke about the movie, like so many others jokes about the movie, Ledger famously said “it’s not a joke to me” and boycotted the Oscars that year. He held his ground in the face of endless homophobia.

Twenty years later, we have Heated Rivalry, one of the most thoughtfully constructed pieces of queer media since Brokeback. It too oozes yearning and tension. It has countless kisses and infamous sex scenes. It’s a phenomenal TV show and it is being treated as such. The only jokes I’ve seen are people calling it porn (and we in the queer community call it yaoi). No one is turning the scenes that make most of us sob and ugly cry into jokes.

Scott kissed Kip and changed the game for queer hockey players, for Ilya and Shane and the other couples in the series.

Brokeback Mountain changed the game for queer media. For Heated Rivalry, yes, but also for Fellow Travellers, Heartstopper, Moonlight, Orange is the New Black, Call me by your name… For so many works queer media that we know and love.

If you haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain, please go watch it.

And if you have watched it and you don’t understand, please remember that this was the movie no one thought could be made because of 2 kisses and 2 sex scenes. Then go rewatch it.

[azirastars]

btw cas has the same truck as the one in brokeback mountain. so. do with that what you will.

[keark]

Mourning