Here’s a video interview with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ang Lee from Australian TV with some extended clips from Brokeback that you haven’t seen in the trailer. Here, Jake reiterates what he said in the Details interview about the characters not being “gay” characters: “Like, these aren’t, in my belief, these aren’t two, like gay guys. These are two people who fall in love. And, you know, from the environment that they’re in, which is incredibly lonely, and, you know, they find each other.” I think he’s probably not articulating his point very well in either interview, that this is a universal love story. For anyone who has read the book or seen the film can tell you, it’s unabashedly gay whether that was the way they chose to define it back then or not.
(thanks matthew)