Jo Salmon
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January 16:01
Brokeback Mountain
Phew! Just finished writing the NUS Women's Campaign report and plan for the next set of Regional Conferences so thought I'd take a break from work to tell you about Brokeback Mountain, which I saw last night with Dan and Antonia.
I thought the film was excellent - it damn near moved me to tears at the end and made me realise how lucky we are, being LGBT in 2006. Sure, things can be shit. No, homophobic violence is not a thing of the past. Yes, there are too many people who cannot come out.
But life is different from everything depicted in the movie. And - if you'll excuse the cheese - it will keep getting better. No matter what certain bigoted groups and individuals might like to believe, you cannot close the door once it's been opened. And we've bloody well forced that door wide open. Some of us have paid for it - some with our lives. But we're not going back.
So here's to a future where there are more films like Brokeback Mountain - take one mainstream concept and make the main characters gay. Just another love story.
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