It's Melissa! I absolutely LOVE the t-shirt, I'm wearing it again today and explained it to some of my colleagues, but some of them haven't seen the movie, so that's a problem. I am watching people's reactions on the street, it's fun! I think you have to at least seen it a few times to understand what the t-shirt is about, so it will definitely only attract real Brokies! I might buy another one, I want one with "I wish I knew how to quit you", in black, but I can't remember if you are selling that one. Wonderful that the profits go to the Matthew Shephard Foundation!
Hi Melissa!
I love hearing about this kind of thing, how you watch for people's reactions on the street. How fun. I haven't made the "I wish I knew how to quit you" shirt, mostly because that line was so massacred in anti-brokeback jokes and parodies that its power became diminished somehow (it's still very powerful in the movie of course, but in the world at large, it got distorted, I thought). I would consider making this now, since the jokes have died down, if it were just simple, small letters in white on black, without the exclamation point, since in the actual scene in the movie, it is said quietly. Only in the trailer for the movie do we hear Jack say it with more passion and anger--a totally different take on it, and that is the version people made fun of.
So, PM me if you want to talk more about that, and enjoy your brokie-wear!
Jenny