The Hollywood Bombardment Picks Up Steam

[A] little online surfing shows how excited advocacy groups and gay movie goers are about [Brokeback Mountain]. It's reaching screens amid a flurry of other mostly smaller gay films with prominent names attached, which has caused some industry wags to proclaim 2005 the "Year of the Gay in Hollywood."

Friday saw the Houston premiere of The Dying Gaul, a psychological thriller starring Peter Saarsgard as a grief-stricken gay screenwriter who is seduced by Hollywood. The Friday after Mountain opens, two other gay-themed films arrive here -- TransAmerica, in which Felicity Huffman plays a man who wants to become a woman, and Breakfast on Pluto, the most accomplished of the three, about a transvestite embroiled in Irish terrorism in the 1970s.

These come on the heels of Rent; Capote; Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang; Heights and Happy Endings, all films with prominent gay characters or themes.

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