Gay Cowboy Cruise Lines To Skip Bahamas This Year
It may be better in the Bahamas, but not if you happen to be a budding island homosexual looking to spend a few hours in a darkened theater, enthralled in a tale of forbidden cowboy love. A Bahamian government decency board has chosen to ban Brokeback Mountain:
A Bahamian government board's decision to ban the movie "Brokeback Mountain" has prompted charges of discrimination and censorship in the island chain.
Gay rights groups and others have called on the Plays and Films Control Board to reverse its decision prohibiting theaters from showing the award-winning movie about a troubled love affair between two cowboys.
"The board chose to ban it because it shows extreme homosexuality, nudity and profanity, and we feel that it has no value for the Bahamian public," Chavasse Turnquest-Liriano, liaison officer for the control board, said Wednesday.
We're not sure what exactly constitutes "extreme homosexuality"—the term conjures the image of dozens of helmeted chorus boys performing radical maneuvers on hot pink BMX bikes—but we hope this foolhardy and censorious decision is reversed. The thought of Crash sweeping the Bahamas' top film honors at this year's prestigious Golden Coconuts ceremony is almost too much for us to bear.
