Brokeback Wordplay

GaybatmanRecently I noticed that Brokeback Mountain had spawned a new snowclone: when people want to say that X is gay, they might refer to "Brokeback X." So I emailed Mark Liberman, a linguist over at Language Log, about it, to see what he had to say. And I sent him the first three relevant examples I found, which he initially hesitated to post, deeming them offensive. (What could be offensive about a Broadway show in which Mohammed and his followers pray by forming daisy chains?)

Anyway, here’s his post, with larger commentary on the zeitgeist, and a note on the "competitive high-stakes field of lingua-blogging."

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