An article in today’s State has great news for fans of gay westerns: critics’ darling Brokeback Mountain is finally heading to Columbia. Seeing as it’s been five weeks since the movie’s debut, many thought our state’s conservative attitude kept it away. However, the article cites economics as the real reason it’s taken so long.

For those of you that have been living under a homophobic rock for the past month, Brokeback Mountain is about two cowboy lovers played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie is one of the biggest contenders this Oscar season, proving what I’ve always said about Hollywood: Hollywood loves gay cowboy pictures. While I have not seen the movie, I hear it is the best movie about gay cowboys since John Wayne’s rarely seen 1968 classic, Pink Pistols at Noon. Now if only my screenplay about gay astronauts would get picked up by a studio. And kudos to me for fighting the urge to throw in a “rawhide” joke.