Talk:Brokeback

Slang

This is the definition for the new slang term, Brokeback. If you keep deleting it and redirecting to your movie, it only shows what a narrow minded bigot YOU are. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.143.140.114 (talk • contribs) .

According to Wikipedia content guidelines, you should avoid neologisms, which are "words and terms that have recently been "coined" and generally do not appear in any dictionary." I have not been able to find even a reference to "brokebacks" referring to closeted gays. It doesn't help that the "brokeback" term allegedly is only common in Northern California. Please provide some verifiable usage. Haakon 09:45, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I came here looking for what Wikipedia had to say about the band Brokeback (see Tortoise (band)) -- don't have time to figure out how to do a proper disambiguation page right now, and there's not yet a Brokeback (band) article anyway, but I'd definitely expect to find the band before the movie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.201.198.25 (talk • contribs)

Thanks for the heads up. I turned it into a disambiguation page, and now we'll just wait to see if anyone want to write Brokeback (band) :-) Haakon 21:55, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just wrote a stub about the band :) Orri Tómasson 15:42, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks! Haakon 20:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disambig of Homosexuality

We have reached consensus that the Brokeback article should not be used to promote "brokeback" as a neologic term for homosexuality or similar based on Brokeback Mountain. It is my opinion that this consensus also applies to using Brokeback as a disambig for Homosexuality. Now User:Lpkidd is inserting this disambigation as a bullet point, and resinstating it with no edit summary after my explained revert. Let us please discuss this here instead of reverting eachother. Thanks. Haakon 20:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

i apologize in reinstating a definition that was previously deleted for clearly academic reasons. for technical reasons in my area, i had connectivity issues that gave me the impression that my definition simply hadn't been saved. i would like to point out that the term 'brokeback' is a widely used term, even though it's origins stem from the movie Brokeback Mountain. again, i do apologize for the revert. thanks. User:Lpkidd

No problem. I'm not sure what the practice is for disambigation pages such as this, so if someone else here will say they agree with you, I won't stand in the way. Haakon 07:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

03-Jun-2006: No, I have heard many uses of the word "Brokeback" but, usually, as an adjective related to the film, per se, not as a stereotype: for example, "Brokeback poster" or "Brokeback webpage" refer to the movie poster or a webpage about the film, not to homosexual banners or homosexual websites. I, personally, consider the use of the word "Brokeback" to mean "homosexual" as being a peculiar, sexual obsession (IMHO), since the most likely meaning, across broader society, would be "Brokeback" means "related to the film Brokeback Mountain." Thanks for mentioning the issue, though. -Wikid77 09:48, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]