Gay Quebec politician's 'Brokeback' TV skit sparks uproar

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MONTREAL (AFP) — The openly gay head of Quebec's independence party has tongues wagging with his performance in a parody of the homoerotic film "Brokeback Mountain" pairing George W. Bush and Stephen Harper. Andre Boisclair, leader of Parti Quebecois, refuses to get under the same tent with the US president and Canadian prime minister in the comedy sketch taped for broadcast next month.

Canadian television networks have been endlessly replaying excerpts of the "Brokeback" sketch, which is to be shown in full in a comedy review special on December 22. In the takeoff of the celluloid romance between two rugged cowboys, Boisclair sticks his head inside a tent where apparently the US president and Canadian premier are fooling around. "I won't go in there," says the leader of...

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