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Big Queer Blog - Entries tagged as walden - Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Entries tagged as walden Related tags brokeback mountain Ann Hathaway anti-gay cinema femininity film gay gay travel Heath Ledger homophobia homophobic jamaica Kate Mara Masculinity Michelle Williams movie Oscars philosophy queerphobia thoreau transamerica travel heath ledger Brokeback Mountain araki contributor festival gay pride ifc john cameron mitchell john waters joseph gross short bus Tuesday, February 28. 2006 From Brokeback Mountain to Walden Pond: Thoreau and the Authentic Life Henry David Thoreau might well have been thinking of Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist when he wrote that ""the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."" While the transcendentalist philosopher wrote long before Annie Proulx wrote the short story upon which Ang Lee based his film of ""Brokeback Mountain,"" Thoreau is as relevant today as when ""Walden"" was published in 1854.