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Jermaine Peters, contributing to a web-based media forum offering responses to the film Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005, US), tells us:
I’ve never had a boyfriend, and the film makes me think that this is the way my life might be. I may eventually find someone, but we will be kept apart by society. That hurts, really deep down. I dreamt of having a husband/life partner/... and having a normal life where we both work, take holidays together, and sit and talk. Is that so much to ask? (Members of the Ultimate Brokeback Forum, 2007: 34)
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Pullen, C. (2009). Factual Media Space: Intimacy, Participation and Therapy. In: Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230236646_5
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