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Life
Jake Gyllenhaal discusses the “stigma” of playing a gay character in Brokeback Mountain
Weighing in on the debate about straight actors in queer roles: “Part of the medicine of storytelling is that we were two straight guys playing these parts.”
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LGBTQ History
LGBTQ celebrities spent years journeying off-screen to achieve equality on-screen
Long before “Brokeback Mountain,” “Ellen” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” a handful of queer characters and comedians helped paved the way for #LGBT representation onscreen.
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Commentary
Why transgender activists want people to boycott the film ‘Anything’
A transgender woman is played by a cisgender man in the upcoming film.
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News (World)
Sony tried to erase the gay romance in ‘Call Me By Your Name’ but Twitter wasn’t having it
The movie is a coming-of-age story centered around a budding romance between two young gay men.
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Commentary
Pride, consumerism, & the sale of a civil rights movement
A few years ago, I entered my classroom and was about to introduce that day’s lesson when a large poster pinned to the bulletin board caught my eye.
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Commentary
How ‘Moonlight’ pulled off the Oscar upset of a lifetime
The odds were stacked against it. Films this good don’t often win best picture.
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News (USA)
Jake Gyllenhaal: I can’t put into words ‘the impact of Heath Ledger’s death’
The actor discusses Heath Ledger’s sudden death — just a few years after they starred together in Brokeback Mountain.
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News (USA)
‘Brokeback Mountain’ producers sponsor right-wing conference that honors antigay reality star
Focus Features, the film company that produced both Brokeback Mountain and The Danish Girl will be sponsoring a right-wing conference that previously honored Phil Robertson, the antigay star of Duck Dynasty. Despite having two canonical LGBTQ movies under their belt, a new film distributed by the company does an abrupt about-face: The Young Messiah is […]
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News (USA)
Jake Gyllenhaal: Hollywood is becoming more gay-friendly
“When will it be OK for an actor to be gay? I mean, it’s OK now.”
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News (USA)
Jake Gyllenhaal on marriage equality: “It is so beautiful”
On the 10th Anniversary of Brokeback Mountain, Jake Gyllenhall candidly reveals his views on marriage equality.