Where Is 'Brokeback Mountain'?
"Brokeback Mountain" remains one of the most egregiously snubbed films at the Oscars, ever. The loss of the Ang Lee film in the Best Picture category still stings to this day, especially to LGBTQI+ audiences pining for a little crumb of representation in the 2000s. The titular mountain is pure fiction; homophobia in rural 1990s Wyoming was not. “Brokeback Mountain” author Annie Proulx, who used to live at Bird Cloud ranch in the ironically named Equality State, overheard someone here go on a bigoted rant about a pair of "homos" who had dined the night before in a bar. On another occasion, also in a Wyoming bar, she spotted a middle-aged man, with an expression of longing on his face, watching younger men play pool. "The story was not 'inspired,' but the result of years of subliminal observation and thought, eventually brought to the point of writing," she said . Proulx published "Brokeback Mountain" as a short story first on The New Yor...
