Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” tells the story of two young cowboys — Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) — herding sheep on the titular mountain in 1960s Wyoming. Over the ...

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I was in my 20s when I read the original Annie Proulx short story "Brokeback Mountain" in The New Yorker; I was floored by it. First, because it was a Western. I'd spent years reading New Yorker ...

I read further and met Ennis and Jack, two sheep herders who eke out a kind of strangled, self-loathing love story on the wind-whipped slopes of a mountain in Wyoming in the 1960s. I then realized why ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. A beloved short story, an epic motion ...

I was 21 when Brokeback Mountain was released. I have such fond memories of going to the gay bar in my hometown of Minneapolis and dancing to bass-driven remixes of Gustavo Santaolalla’s gentle, ...