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'Brokeback Mountain' shirts on display in LA

No one who saw the movie "Brokeback Mountain" could forget the image at the end of the film of the intertwined shirts worn by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Now the shirts are on display at the Autry National Center of the American West in Los Angeles. The shirts are part of an exhibit in the Contemporary Westerns case in the museum's Imagination Gallery.

"Brokeback Mountain," released in 2005, is the story of a relationship between two cowboys . It's based on a short story by E. Annie Proulx from her book "Close Range: Wyoming Stories." The film won an Academy Award for Best Director for Ang Lee.

In the movie, Ennis Del Mar (played by Ledger) saves the shirts as a keepsake of the relationship he's had with Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal).

According to the museum, the shirts are on loan from collector and producer Tom Gregory. He reportedly bought the shirts for $101,00 at auction in 2006.

The Autry is working to house the achieves of the International Gay Rodeo Association. The museum is also planning a panel on what it means to be gay in the West. It's all part of the Autry's effort to study LGBT advancements in the West.

The Autry Museum is at 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles.

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Another gay kiss on daytime soap opera

ABC's "One Life to Live" is the latest daytime soap opera to feature a gay kiss, this one between Kyle Lewis (Brett Claywell) seeking to renew the flame with Oliver Fish (out actor Scott Evans).

See the scene here.

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Movies to see on DVD

Here’s a roundup of some recent DVD releases of movies that had only limited release in theaters:

“If The World Were Mine”
Here’s a different kind of high school musical. An all-boys prep school gets ready to stage a musical version of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and outcast gay Timothy lands the role of Puck. But while the show is still in rehearsal Timothy discovers a magic potion and turns just about everyone in town gay, including the high school jock he’s interested in. It’s a fun fantasy that has everyone seeing things from Timothy’s perspective for a change.

“Chris & Don. A Love Story”
A documentary about a long term gay love story may not sound so interesting, but this film is surprisingly compelling. Don Bachardy narrates the tale of his relationship with Christopher Isherwood, author of “The Berlin Stories,” which inspired the musical “Cabaret.” The men met at Will Rogers beach in 1953 when Don was a teenager and Chris was 30 years older. They stayed together for decades until Isherwood died in 1986. The age difference was one of the challenges to maintaining their relationship depicted here in home movies, interviews and readings. The extras include Bachardy giving a tour of his art-covered home in Santa Monica and his rant on gay marriage.

“The Mulligans”
The production values are first rate, but the script is silly soap opera. The film’s title comes from the golf term mean “do over.” Tyler brings his friend chase to the family lake place for the summer. Soon Chase comes out to his friend, and then there’s a family crisis when Tyler’s father Nathan, an avid golfer, wants a “do over” of his life and acts on his attraction to Chase. In an interesting bit of casting, Nathan’s wife is played by Thea Gill, who starred as one of the lesbians in “Queer As Folk."

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UCI student takes a stand in ballet project

UC Irvine graduate student Heather Castillo takes a stand against Prop 8 in her ballet "Everyone Deserves a Happy Ending," performed this spring as her last project for her MFA degree. Castillo is straight and married.

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The Advocate lists the best gay blogs

Are you reading one of the best gay blogs? Well, The Advocate has a list of the Top 15 Gay(ish) blogs:

AmericaBlog.com:
Gawker.com
DListed.com
HuffingtonPost.com
Signorile.com
TowleRoad.com
PamsHouseBlend.com
WorldofWonder.net
PerezHilton.com
Rod 2.0
Slog.TheStranger.com
PinkIsTheNewBlog.com
Popnography.com
OhLaLaMag.com
GoodAsYou.org

Find The Advocate's story here: http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid88979.asp

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Study finds GLBT community likes blogs

This isn't exactly a news flash to anyone reading this, but gays are more likely than straight people to read blogs. That's according to a national survey conducted by Harris Interactive in May 2009.

The survey found 55 percent of gays and lesbians responding said they read some kind of blog, compared to 38 percent of heterosexuals. The survey didn't speculate as to why gays like blogs so much...maybe it's just that we're on the cutting edge.

What is the GLBT community reading?

--34 percent said they read news and current event blogs, compared to 22 percent of heterosexuals.
--28 percent read political blogs, compared with 14 percent of heterosexuals.
--25 percent read entertainment and pop culture blogs, compared with 15 percent of heterosexuals.
--14 percent read travel blogs, compared with 8 percent of heterosexuals.

The survey found blog reading by GLBTs is increasing, up from 51 percent in March 2008 and 32 percent in November 2006.

The survey found 55 percent of GLBTs belong to Facebook, 23 percent are on LinkedIn and 20 percent are on Twitter.