Brokeback Author Annie Proulx On Homophobia & Rural Life

http://www.365gay.com/entertainment/special/specialreports/121605special.htm

Annie Proulx figured no magazine would touch her short story "Brokeback Mountain," the tale of two Wyoming cowboys whose romance is so intense it sometimes leaves them black and blue.

But The New Yorker published it in 1997, and it went on to win an O. Henry prize and a National Magazine Award. Now the movie version is a leading Oscar contender, with starring performances from Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist.

In a telephone conversation with The Associated Press from her home in Wyoming, Proulx, a 70-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner, declined to discuss the origins of her two roughneck lovers, citing an upcoming book written with screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Instead, she spoke about homophobia, her fascination with rural life and the process of making Twist and Del Mar live and breathe.



great interview!

where she describes a fierce blizzard. I won't post the excerpt but here is her list of names around the world for fierce storms:

Blue Norther
Blaast
Landlash
Bull's-eye squall
Vinds-gnyr
Nor'easter
Williwaw
wild Doinionn
Koshava
Steppenwind
Buran
Crivetz
Viugas
Purgoas
Myatel
Blizzard
Northwind
Pittarak

will global warming cause these storm to disappear? get even worse? or change to something different? I wonder

There's no such thing as homophobia. Only gay people that (wrongly) think they should be treated well.

"The only people who would have problems with it are people who are very insecure about themselves and their own sexuality and who would be putting up a defense, and that's usually young men who haven't figured things out yet. "