BIG GAY READ...

[michele cryer]

Join The Big Gay Read for the opening night of Brokeback Mountain at Manchester’s Cornerhouse in January



Brokeback Mountain is now an award-winning motion picture (starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhall, Michelle Williams, & Randy Quaid) and comes to Manchester’s Cornerhouse from Fri 6 – Thu 19 January 2006.

Come and join The Big Gay Read for the first night screenings on Friday 6 January 2006 where you can cast your Big Gay Read vote and have the chance to win a complete set of the Recommended Reading List Books. The screenings take place at 5.50pm/8.30pm and tickets are £5.10/£3.70 conc.*

In Ang Lee’s moving adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story, cowboys Ennis (Ledger) and Jack (Gyllenhall) are taken on as ranch hands at a Wyoming ranch. Sent to a remote outpost, they form a friendship that develops into deep love. But summer ends and they fade back into the lives they’re expected to lead: finding wives, raising families. Years later, they meet again. Lee lassos the underlying romantic homo-tendencies of numerous Westerns and yanks ‘em to the forefront, with openly gay love scenes between the leads.

“Heath Ledger’s wrenching performance is the stuff of Hollywood History” Newsweek

Brokeback Mountain (15), 136min

For more info please go to: www.brokebackmountain.com/

Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH. Box Office tel: [phone].

***SPECIAL TICKET OFFER***

Thanks to our lovely friends at Cornerhouse, if you quote BIG GAY READ OFFER when buying your ticket for either the 5.50pm or 8.30pm screenings of Brokeback Mountain on Friday 6 January 2006, you will receive £1 off the ticket price.

This offer is strictly limited to 2 tickets per person and is restricted to the first 100 tickets sold to Big Gay Read Subscribers. So get there early!

*Proof of concession = unemployed, students, disabled, OAP



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Don’t miss in December...
All We Were Saying. A happening at the Apartment by Ken Chu.



Same sex civil partnerships will be legally recognized in England and Wales on 21 December 2005. All We Were Saying is a one-day performance work with two men in bed knitting for peace. All is looking to provide a public forum for ordinary queer citizens and their friends to respond to this momentous occasion in our history.

The Apartment will be opened from 3 – 8 pm for the community to gather in support of the knitters. There will be song singing, spontaneous camp, kiss-ins, reunions, sound bites, mapping a timeline, a moment of silence in memory of lost colleagues, and other communal activities through the course of the evening. The work is informed by the Yoko Ono/John Lennon 1969 Amsterdam 'bed-in' for peace.

All We Were Saying is a grassroots effort in association facillitated by the Apartment, Castlefield Gallery, Chinese Arts Centre, and queerupnorth.



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