I don't remember ever seeing that. There was so much press at the time it was easy to miss a lot of articles.
I know she is a fan of the movie because I met her at a Brokeback event.
Patricia Nell Warren attended the first discussion in the Out West series, "Whatever Happened to Ennis Del Mar" at the Autry last December, and I think she'll be there for the screening of Brokeback Mountain on Dec 11.
She also wrote about
the shirts on her blog:
Brokeback Mountain cowboy shirts installed at Autry National Center of the American West
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
August 13, 2009 3:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/08/brokeback_mountain_cowboy_shirts_installed_at_autr.phpThe L.A. Times talked with Patricia after the event:
Patricia Nell Warren, a historian and author, said that same-sex relationships between cowboys were often tolerated in the early days of the West largely because manpower was scarce, thus making it impractical for landowners to be choosy about whom they hired.But attitudes changed with the introduction of mechanized agriculture, which rendered human labor more expendable. "Tolerance went away after that," she said.
And they talked with our own Sfericsf:
Eric Hooper, who lives in San Jose, is a Brokie who said he has seen the movie 56 times in theaters, flying across the country to catch screenings at various festivals and events.
The movie came as a revelation, he said, after living in a city for most of his adult life. "That's what really struck me about 'Brokeback' -- it presented the possibility of being gay and living in rural America."
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/15/entertainment/la-et-out-west15-2009dec15
