Gay Cowboy Tale Causes Flap At Texas School [View All]

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http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/09/093005brokeback.htm

The movie won the highest award at the Venice Film Festival and kudos at the Toronto International Film Festival and now the short story on which Brokeback Mountain is based is on the reading list at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin, but not without a fight that cost the school $3 million.

Brokeback Mountain was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx and appeared in the Oct. 13, 1997, issue of The New Yorker magazine. It was then incorporated in a collection of Proulx's short stories, titled "Close Range." The book is on the school's reading list at St. Andrew's Upper School.

The story is of two cowboys who meet in Wyoming and fall in love. They split up and one marries. Then years later they are reunited.