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"Whatever Happened to Ennis del Mar?" panel in LA!
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: BayCityJohn on December 10, 2009, 12:58:05 pm ---Current attendee list
1 Ronald (friend of Pete)
2 Steve (friend of Pete)
3 Tom (friend of Pete)
4 Greg (friend of Pete)
5 Pete Tannen
6 Eric Hooper
7 John Trudell
8 Linda Andrews
9 scot5636
10 deblibdir (DC)
11 Michael Flanagan
12 Jimmy (gnash)
13Jim Grr
14 Joe Denny (WLAGuy)
15 Lyle
16 Sparky (tentative)
17 RouxB (tentative)
18 Welles
19 sunspot
20 RickB
--- End quote ---
What a great group! I wish I could be there! :'( I also wish I would see horsewrangler's name there too!
BayCityJohn:
The 'Out West' Series at the Autry National Center
Audio interview with Gregory Hinton on KUOR (Southern California Public Radio)
http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/12/10/out-west-series-autry-national-center/
BayCityJohn:
“Better Two than One: THE SHIRTS FROM BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN”
Remarks by Gregory Hinton
excerpt:
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It is for this reason I look forward to working with Dr. Steve Aron on “Gay in the
West,” the symposium we are planning with the Autry Institute for the Study of
the American West and UCLA. We have some great speakers we want you to get
to know plus we want to hear your stories, also.
To know us is to love us. And that is why when we quit our rural communities,
they lose too.
In this regard, Annie Proulx recently wrote me the following:
I wish Mr. Hinton good fortune in his work. He is tragically
right when he says western rural communities lose very much
when gay men and women have to leave the state. I know some
gay people who have stayed. Gradually the community accepts
them, but only if they are born there.
I recently returned to Wyoming with the ashes of my beloved older brother,
Scotty, and Ron, his partner of thirty years. Before he died, my brother requested
that they be scattered in Crazy Woman Creek, in the shadow of the Big Horn
Mountains. After life in urban Southern California, my western brother yearned
for his rural past till the end.
For those of us who come from the West, it’s in our blood and never lets us go.
Seated here today, in this gallery called the Spirit of Imagination, are Saddle
Bronc Riders, Chute Doggers, Barrel Racers and Bull Riders, some who also
happen to be Gay or Lesbian. I look at them and ask you.
What is not to love?
When I study these intertwined shirts, like the character of Ennis Del Mar in
Brokeback Mountain, I am overcome with survivor’s guilt. Lovers, brothers, a
cowboy father wanting to protect his sons, when I look at the shirts, I am grateful
they will always be together. It makes sense. It’s what we all hope for. It’s what
anybody deserves. Better two than one. Better two together, than two alone.
I’ll close with a brief reading from Annie Proulx’s short story, Brokeback Mountain
and then I have a few people to thank.
(Remembering, here, Heath Ledger)
“The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it, the sleeves
carefully worked down inside Jack’s sleeves. It was his own plaid shirt, lost he’d thought,
in some damn laundry, his dirty shirt, the pocket ripped, buttons missing, stolen by Jack
and hidden here inside Jack’s own shirt, the pair like two skins, one inside the other, two
in one. He pressed his face into the fabric, and breathed in slowly through his mouth and
nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but
there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback
Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.”
PDF of the complete Out West first chapter
http://media.scpr.org/images/news/2009/12/10/Autry_Comments-Hinton.pdf
ptannen:
List as of 12-10
1 Ronald
2 Steve
3 Tom
4 Greg
5 Pete Tannen Lunch
6 Eric Hoooper Lunch
7 John Trudell Lunch
8 Linda Andrews Lunch
9 Scott Price (scot5636)
10 deblibdir Lunch
11 Michael Flanagan Lunch
12 Jimmy (gnash)
13Jim Grr
14 Joe Denny (WLAGuy) Lunch
15 Ernie Lunch
16 Lyle (Mooska)
17 Welles
18 Dan Flanery (sunspot)
19 RickB
20 Sparky (tentative)
21 RouxB (tentative)
BayCityJohn:
Autry National Center Holds Free “Out West” Panel Sunday, December 13
Please join GLAAD at the Autry National Center’s “Out West” series for the panel discussion “What Ever Happened to Ennis del Mar?” on Sunday December 13, 2009 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Autry Center’s Wells Fargo Theater. The panel is a free event and the first in a series of programs examining the LGBT community’s contributions and influence in the American West and the Western genre.
Conceived by author and filmmaker Gregory Hinton, Out West follows the current installation at the Autry Center of the two intertwined shirts worn by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Focus Features 2005 groundbreaking film Brokeback Mountain. The iconic shirts represent the struggle between heritage and acceptance in gay cowboy culture. The shirts are worn, with a slight red dust caked on the exposed areas that are not protected by the entwine, highlighting Out West’s focus on the LGBT community’s toil for safety and inclusion in the rural Western communities.
http://glaadblog.org/2009/12/10/autry-national-center-holds-free-out-west-panel-sunday-december-13/
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