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Gay cowboys cost $3 million
Advocate, The, Nov 8, 2005
Suggesting that students read about two cowboys who fall in love has cost one religious high school in Austin $3 million. St. Andrew's Episcopal School in September told Cary McNair, a leading donor, that he could keep a $3 million pledge after he objected to the use of "Brokeback Mountain," a gay love story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. The short story, assigned as optional reading in a 12th-grade English class, was part of an "apparent agenda" that was detrimental to the school's future and should not be used, McNair said in a letter obtained by the Austin American-Statesman.
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School policy, however, prohibits all "conditional" gifts, no matter how large, a spokesman said, adding that the story would not be used next year because the English teacher whose students have read the tale for the past five years does not teach literature that has been adapted for film.
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