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Several campus groups are sponsoring a screening and discussion of the film Brokeback Mountain 7 p.m. Monday in Limburg Theater. The event is free and hoagie sandwiches will be provided.
“The movie is groundbreaking,” says Stephanie Feliciano ’06 (Forest Hills, N.Y.), who has chosen the event to serve as the Reeder Scholars program’s weekly discussion. “It truly makes us evaluate our thoughts on how we view love, societal norms and roles, family, homosexuality, and homophobia.”
Sponsoring groups are Lafayette Activities Forum, Association of Lafayette Women, Questioning Established Sexual Taboos, the Office of Intercultural Development, and the Department of English.
Newsweek‘s Sean Smith writes, “Brokeback feels like a landmark filmit has the potential to change the national conversation and to challenge people’s ideas about the value and validity of same-sex relationships.”
Neil G. Giuliano, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, told the San Francisco Chronicle, “I think it will be as groundbreaking for gay relationships as Philadelphia was in tackling AIDS issues. It will be moving for anyone who is open to seeing the challenges and difficulties of what, at that time and even for many today, is the self-imposed and society-imposed necessity to live dishonestly.”
Feliciano provides the following links related to the movie. The first is a trailer for the film and the others are articles:
Some questions posed by Feliciano for consideration:
Named for its Reeder Street residence, the Reeder Scholars program borrows its basic structure from the McKelvy House Scholars program – regularly holding discussions open to the campus and organizing activities both on and off campus – but its students are determined that the program have its own distinguishing characteristics.
Past Discussions
March 27 — New Religious Movements
Feb. 26 – Faith and Reason
Jan. 29 — Farm Sanctuary’s Peaceable Kingdom
Nov. 29 — Music and Society
Nov.15 – Discussion
Nov. 1 – Gender Differences
Oct. 25 – Sex
Oct. 18 – Human Animal
Oct. 11 – Guilt
Sept. 27 – Consumer Behavior
Sept. 20 – Human Nature
Sept. 13 – Food as a Cultural Identity
Sept. 3 – Offensiveness and Media