Willie Style

Guy Padgett, the openly gay mayor here in Wyoming's second-largest city, had a tough time getting to his table for dinner at a restaurant the other night, interrupted and detained every few feet by a friend, a constituent or some other well-wisher who wanted to shake his hand.

"Brokeback Mountain," about gay cowboys in Wyoming, has not yet made it to Casper. Mayor Guy Padgett says little will change when it does. Though neither he nor many other people here have seen it yet, Mr. Padgett says he feels pretty sure that "Brokeback Mountain," the new movie about gay cowboys in Wyoming, will not change those old rhythms of glad-handing very much. People here, he thinks, have gotten past seeing him as gay; to most of them he is now just Guy.

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Why should it be any different. This article explains to me that all the press is overexaggerating the reactions to this movie. It's just a movie. Others came, others will come ahead.