Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed Brokeback Mountain, set throughout the 1960s, tells the story of two men who fall in love while herding sheep through the American West. Widely described at the time as a “gay cowboy movie”, (a “cruel simplification” according to Roger Ebert), it was praised for its depiction of homosexuality, and the performances … Continue reading The Subversion of Western Iconography Under a Homosexual Lens in 1960s American Film