Slog - Comments on Brokeback Marriages. No, really. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri The NYTimes has an article on gay men in straight marriages, or Brokeback Marriages. I'm not sure how I'd feel if a man I married liked to have sex with men. Probably competitive. We'd either wind up divorced or with score cards. Here's a touching quote from a husband who struck a balance between having sex with men, and caring for his wife as cancer munched on her fallopian tubes pacman-style: "I am totally committed on all levels to Paulette. I felt so intimate with her when I was caring for her during her cancer treatments — to me, that's... Copyright 2007 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:53:06 -0800 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:08:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Rain Monkey Brokeback marriages? Sounds more like Tom-Kat marriages. Picture Tom Cruise busting Oprah's couch telling her exactly what he and his wife both love.

]]> Rain Monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c031631 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c031631 Arts Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:55:03 -0800 Comment by Peter Those marriages probably work for women who don't like sex.

]]> Peter http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c031640 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c031640 Arts Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:05:56 -0800 Comment by Smarm FROM THE NY TIMES ARTICLE:
"I had no suspicions whatsoever. He's very masculine looking. It's not like he had Barbra Streisand or show tunes on."

COMMENT:
Can someone explain why a liking for show tunes is supposed to be overtly gay? If I'm not mistaken, a majority of popular songs now regarded as American standards were first written for stage or screen productions. At least until the 1950s, that was about the only profitable market for selling a song or lyric.

]]> Smarm http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c031744 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c031744 Arts Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:24:53 -0800 Comment by Sav You're right there is nothing gay about show tunes. Barbara Streisand on the other hand..

]]> Sav http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c032001 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c032001 Arts Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:01:55 -0800 Comment by fnarf it's sad that so many clueless straight people associate "show tunes" (i.e., the Great American Songbook) with Barbra Streisand, who might be the worst singer who ever lived, and certainly never really had much to do with that songbook.

I'm reasonably certain that Frank Sinatra wasn't gay.

]]> fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c032004 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/brokeback_marri#c032004 Arts Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:08:43 -0800