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Towleroad has a Brokeback Mountain review (he loved it!).

Lee’s adaptation is everything I wanted it to be — stunning visually, emotionally solid, true to the original story — but at its core it expresses a knowledge of the secrecy and the gut-wrenching pain that gays experience when required to abide by society’s heterosexual models for fear that their true feelings, if exposed, will engender shame, humiliation, or violence. This film begins in the early 60’s but we all know that even today there are men who live entire lives in the closet, never able to allow life its full expression.

Be warned: there are spoilers in this review.

Ford has bowed to pressure from the AFA and is cutting off advertising in gay publications such as the Advocate:

Ford Motor Co. said it will stop running ads for its Jaguar and Land Rover brands in the gay press, helping to avoid a confrontation with conservative Christians but setting up a fight with gays and lesbians.

The American Family Association, a conservative religious group, launched a boycott of Ford this year for extending marriage benefits to same-sex couples and giving “thousands of dollars to support homosexual groups and their agenda,” the group said in written statement. The group criticized Ford for supporting gay commitment ceremonies and gay pride parades.

from the Washington Post

AmericaBlog says secret meetings and former senior Bush White House officials were involved:

Oh doesn’t this get interesting. The two Ford execs who sat down with the extremist gay-hating organization to work out the secret deal, who do you think they were? Why, two former senior Bush administration officials. Aren’t things getting interesting.

Sightseers in Buenos Aires got a shock today when the city’s most famous landmark, the obelisk, was covered with a giant pink condom for World Aids Day.

City officials used cranes to unfurl shiny pink cloth over the monolith in a campaign promoting condom use to prevent infection with the HIV virus that causes Aids.

“It seemed like we could have the biggest impact by putting a condom on the most important symbol of the city,” said Sandra Castillo, an organiser of the campaign.

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