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Did you know? "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) by Ang Lee was the first mainstream Hollywood film with a gay love story as its central theme (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as cowboys). It was the favourite for Best Picture 2006 but surprisingly lost to "Crash". Many critics call this an example of Hollywood's discomfort with queer themes.

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"Brokeback Mountain" (2005) by Ang Lee was the first mainstream Hollywood film with a gay love story as its central theme (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as cowboys). It was the favourite for Best Picture 2006 but surprisingly lost to "Crash". Many critics call this an example of Hollywood's discomfort with queer themes.

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