Why Was Brokeback Mountain 'Banned' In Derry, Northern Ireland?

The film was not actually banned, but it was effectively banned by no one showing it. Ninety miles away in Belfast, people were queuing around the block to see it at every cinema show it.

There is only one major cinema in Derry, the Strand Multiplex, they obviously had no plans to show the film.  Clearly bigoted, they supported those in Derry who claimed the film was obscene.  Anyone who has seen the film knows it is a story of love and friendship over a life time of two men, it's neither obscene nor particularly offensive, it doesn't glamourise homosexuality, instead it tells a story.

I wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper, but of course, it was NOT published, rocking the boat is not what you do here.

When the Multiplex were asked 'Will you be showing Brokeback Mountain', they answered, 'No, we don't show that distributor's films'.  There I caught them in a lie, I went to the distributor's website and checked, I had seen four or five of their films at the Multiplex, they lied.