This movie's place in the canon is probably something along the lines of "The Gay Cowboy Movie That Should Have Won Best Picture". I wasn't expecting so much interiority from it, though. This is a movie about how queer men are taught to hide from themselves and the trouble of unlearning our cultural programming.
I'm pretty sure I spent 2005/2006 strenuously avoiding any situations where this movie could have been mentioned. Pretty easy to do in my town, but boy,…