Brokeback High -- Part 2

Okay, I try not to do "themes", but this shit is starting to piss me off. I've been reading some of the comments left on Brandon Flyte's website. While most are supportive, there are a few like the one left by Kenny from Rochester, NY:

Notice how many deliberately poorly written and spelled anti-gay comments there are here? Hint: they were left by liberals in a desperate attempt to portray conservatives (or anyone who disapproves of the gay lifestyle, including many liberals, actually) as retarded, hateful thugs. When you deliberately make a distasteful movie just to get a rise out of people and not to tell a good story, you deserve the criticism you get. You also broke a rule. Rules need to be enforced, otherwise we get anarchy. We see through you.

Well, Kenny, most conservatives are retarded, hateful thugs.

Here we go again: just like with Brokeback Mountain, we have assholes cropping up all over the place and criticizing a film that they've never seen. Can you say prejudice?

Then there's someone who commented under the name "Right-wing Zealot":

Brandon you really really REALLLLLY want to be known as the next Michael Moore don't you? A Liberal-in-training. Invent your own controversy strawman, blame it on the high muckymucks, and spread it around playing the fool. Priceless!

To all the gay supporters and bigots who swallowed the "Ameri-KKK-a is full of haters" lie: how does it feel to be taken for a ride? Hmm?? Joseph Goebbels was right, repeat a myth often enough and the lie becomes the truth.

Interesting, isn't it, that this guy actually quotes Joseph Goebbels. You have to wonder what he thinks about the holocaust.

Brandon's critics condemn him because they believe that he produced a controversial film and showed it in class merely as a publicity stunt. I don't know what Brandon's motives were, but, personally, I don't doubt them as others have, not for a minute, but even if I did, I'd say "So what!" Homophobia is a disease, and it's not going to cure itself. The only way we can eradicate it is to keep attacking it.

Segregation would have never ended had it not been for the actions of people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and Bayard Rustin, who were willing to stand up to all of the racist bigots and say, "No!"

Okay, unwad your panties. I'm not trying to turn Brandon into some kind of hero -- or saint for that matter. He's a high school kid who did an assignment.

But the fact of the matter is, we need more guys like him: straight men who, for whatever reason, are willing to stand up and say, "Here -- here's a story about some gay boys -- get used to it, because it isn't going to fucking go away."



see also:

• Brokeback High (Part 1)
  

tags: homosexuality, homosexual, gay, Brokeback High