Brokeback Mountain

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Name:	Brokeback Mountain
Abbreviation(s):	BBM
Creator:	Annie Proulx, Ang Lee
Date(s):	2005 (movie), 1997 (short story)
Medium:	movie, print
Country of Origin:	USA
External Links:	official site, wikipedia, IMDB
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Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar, the two main characters of the movie as depicted in interior art of the fanzine Somebody New. Art by Shelley Butler.

Brokeback Mountain is a gay romance movie with cowboys, that adapted a short story of the same name by Annie Proulx. It starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

The movie started the phenomenon of Brokeback Mountain Parody Trailers.

Due to the downer ending of the canon material, there's a high percentage of AUs and fix it fanfics in the fandom. Most of the stories are slash.

Shortly after the movie came out Annie Proulx's attorneys began randomly contacting fan fiction writers, demanding that they cease writing fan fiction and that the stories be taken offline. This did not stop fans from writing fan fiction, even if it did put a halt to at least one fanzine (Somebody New). In 2008, Annie Proulx complained to the press about fans writing 'pornographic fix-it stories' in the Brokeback Mountain universe.

Fanzines

• A Real Good Life
• Somebody New

LJ Communities

Fanart by Suzan Lovett, cover of the fanzine Somebody New.

• Brokeback Mountain Discussion - last active in April 2008
• Brokeback Mountain Meta - reviews of, and commentaries about, the film Brokeback Mountain. Last active in June 2007.
• Brokeback Fans - last active in July 2008.
• Can't Quit You: A Brokeback Mountain Fan Community - last active in July 2008.
• Brokeback Mountain News - last active in September 2005.
• Brokeback Mountain Fan Fiction - watched by more than 100 people and still active.
• Brokeback Mountain Fanfics - German and English BBM fanfic. Last active in May 2007.
• Brokeback Mountain Fan Fiction - BBM stories and artwork. Last active in May 2007.
• BrokebackSlash - more than 1700 members, still active.
• The Wranglers of Brokeback Mountain - with more than 2000 members the largest Brokeback Mountain community on livejournal, still active.
• The First Brokeback Mountain Icon community - occasional activity.
• Brokeback Mountain Artists Retreat - last active in April 2008.
• Brokeback Mountain Weekly - Fanfic, occasional activity.

Resources

• Newbieguide to Brokeback Mountain Fandom on LJ
• Fandom overview on Crack Van
• Jack Twist/Ennis del Mar Ship Manifesto
• The Ultimate Brokeback Guide