I mean are they really kissing and touching this way? And I don't mean to offend anyone, I just don't know and I am curious to understand.
2006-06-28 12:39:18 · 15 answers · asked by Sabina_Rois 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I qualify to answer this. I am a gay rodeo cowboy in Kansas. Yes we act like that. We show as much passion towards the men we love as hetros show towards each other. Yes, we play and have fun like skinny dipping and camping and horseback riding.
2006-06-28 12:48:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Gays and lesbians show effection like most people. They hug and kiss and make love and have sex and laugh and cry like everyone else in the world. The difference is they do it with same sex partners. Brokeback mountain is a time period piece set in the 50's or 60's when homosexuality was less prevalent in society. The modern gay man accepts himself, even if the world doesn't. Although there are many gay men married to women, they eventually come out of the closet at some point. Unfortunately, the damage it can cause families is heartbreaking and real. Gay men don't beat each other up and then make love like they did in the movie either. If they do, they need the same psychological help I'd recommend to any heterosexual couple living in a domestically violent relationship. Any relationship between two or more consenting adults is really nobody's business but their own as long as nobody is getting hurt. True love with someone who shares the same definition of the word "Love" is hard to find in this world for anyone. If you find it in another consenting adult then you are blessed indeed, gay, straight or otherwise.
2006-06-28 14:24:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the actors playing Ennis and Jack are acting like gay people.
Gay people in VERY rural settings in the 1960's.
I haven't seen the movie, but I read the book. The description of the sexual encounters in the book are relatively accurate. Men kiss and touch. Some men make love and others "Fword."
I don't really think it is a love story, though. I see it as a story about lust, infidelity, betrayal, and heartbreak. There isn't a lot of what I would call love there. To me its a sad story about sad people doing sad things. The cinematography in the movie, I hear, is breathtaking. When I see it, it will be more for the scenery than it will be for the "gay" theme.
2006-06-28 14:19:31 · answer #3 · answered by Dustin Lochart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i personally found Brokeback to be somewhat insulting to gays. Yes, gay people hug and kiss and touch, of course. but where was the love between the characters? They never spoke to each other, didn't share any aspect of their lives with each other, and didn't even really get along well. The only thing they did was meet up to have sex. I understand that it was a comment on the time, but for people to hold it up as a great love story seems silly... I don't see many heterosexual movies where the great romance is defined only as sex. The movie reinforces stereotypes that being gay is only about sex and not love.
2006-06-28 12:49:57 · answer #4 · answered by SkulleryMaid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people say "yes gay people show love just like straight people". But I thought the sex and interaction in Brokeback Mountain was intentionally very rough and masculine. The initial sex scene was very quick rough, almost violent. Throughout there was an implication that these men had more fun having sex with each other cos the women in their lives wanted to do boring soft "womanly" things like foreplay, romantic civilised stuff and soft caressing.
Lack of relevant experience means I can't answer the question myself.
2006-06-28 22:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by Aldan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, this is pretty much how gays interact. It's practically just like the way a man and woman act together in a straight relationship. There isn't a difference in the kissing, the touching, the hugging and the love.
2006-06-28 21:23:42 · answer #6 · answered by Maggie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah... Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art? Perhaps you should be asking do Ennis and Jack from Brokeback Mountain really act like the gays?
2006-06-28 13:37:18 · answer #7 · answered by John Smith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We kiss, hug and hold like anyone in LOVE. When you love someone, no part of yourself is held back because you trust the person you love. So why would it be different for us?
2006-06-28 12:46:00 · answer #8 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am a straight female and i just wanna say that i LOVED brokeback mountain. it made me cry lol but it was amazing.
2006-06-28 12:59:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well when you consider that the writer was a woman you understand why so many homosexual men where disappointed with the sex scene.
2006-06-28 14:28:45 · answer #10 · answered by ♂ Randy W. ♂ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋