Can you imagine a time when if you liked another guy there was absolutely no place ... no place ... no single place anywhere to kiss him unless you were behind a locked door out of everyone's sight?

I think many gay people today only know of a gay rights movement defined as establishing a right to marry, and just have no touch with the realities we faced in the sixties. (I also find this attitude about gay rights to be extremely decadent, but...)

This was a time when if there maybe was a gay bar in a city, it had a number and a light bulb over the door... never no name ... just a street number... and you were taking a severe, life-jeopardizing chance that the cops wouldn't bust in .... like in Stonewall.

Another great film that would apparently go right over the heads of people today would be the Merchant/Ivory 1988 movie Maurice, which is about British aristocrats dealing with homosexuality in the 1910s.

I appreciate your opinion, and you are one of many people who have made similar statements about Brokeback Mountain, particularly a puzzlement as to why the characters just didn't decide to embrace their love.

Go read about what happened to Oscar Wilde.

Steve