Our best bud Heath didn’t play a gay man in Brokeback Mountain; he played my dad. After seeing the movie I suspected my dad might be gay—a rumor my sex-deprived mother liked to propel when I was impressionable. Then I realized it’s just that Ledger is playing stoic, concealing his emotions—just like dad. No fear; no pain; no love; actually the only emotion it’s okay for this kind of man to express is anger.