The whole Brokeback High story has been confusing to everyone. Did high schooler Brandon Flyte lie about being expelled? Or is West Linn-Wilsonville superintendent Roger Woehl the one who has shifted into dishonest damage control. Queerty's Steve Pep spoke to Brandon about the saga.

What prompted you to create a video about a love story between two gay men?
Homosexuality, or more specifically people's lack of acceptance of homosexuality, is a real issue that real people deal with. If you were to ask Ang Lee the same question, I don't think he'd say he was trying to make a strong film to advocate the gay community. My film isn't a love story between two gay men-- it's a love story between two people struggling to accept themselves and be accepted by others.

What to you want to say to Superintendent Woehl?
What I'd like to say to Super Intendent Woehl at this point is nothing. The Oregonian twisted my words and meanings and published libellous comments about me. It's only fair to assume that they did the same to Dr. Woehl.

More Brandon Flyte after the jump.

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Seems like everyone is trying to swindle us these days. First we had the James Frey controversy followed by the J.T. Leroy hoax. Now we're having high school kids lie to us. And here we thought teenagers were perfectly behaved angels.

Straight boy Brandon Flyte claimed that his school expelled him for showing his high school class Brokeback Mountain short film called Brokeback High that featured a scene with male teens shirtless in bed. While the film was indeed shown in class, he wasn’t expelled. He perpetuated the lie on his own web site, where the story spread all over the world, pissing off queens everywhere. And now he has to deal with pissed of queens who have been lied to. Looks like Flyte’s in trouble for real this time.

These Brokeback parodies were starting to get so tired that someone was bound to be punished for them.

UPDATE: Straight boy Flyte claims the piece in The Oregonian is inaccurate. His own updated comments are after the jump.

High schooler in trouble for lie on Web site [The Oregonian]

Brandon Flyte [Official Site]

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Seems like everyone is trying to swindle us these days. First we had the James Frey controversy followed by the J.T. Leroy hoax. Now we're having high school kids lie to us. And here we thought teenagers were perfectly behaved angels.

Straight boy Brandon Flyte claimed that his school expelled him for showing his high school class Brokeback Mountain short film called Brokeback High that featured a scene with male teens shirtless in bed. While the film was indeed shown in class, he wasn’t expelled. He perpetuated the lie on his own web site, where the story spread all over the world, pissing off queens everywhere. And now he has to deal with pissed of queens who have been lied to. Looks like Flyte’s in trouble for real this time.

These Brokeback parodies were starting to get so tired that someone was bound to be punished for them.

UPDATE: Straight boy Flyte claims the piece in The Oregonian is inaccurate. His own updated comments are after the jump.

High schooler in trouble for lie on Web site [The Oregonian]

Brandon Flyte [Official Site]

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• What makes us gay or straight? Was it the leather pants our grandma bought us when we were six? There are scientists trying to figure it all out, and right now in the rhetorical battle of nature vs. nurture, nature seems to be winning. [CBS News via 429 News]

• Straight high school student Brandon Flyte has allegedly been expelled from his high school for surprise-airing his gay-themed student film Brokeback High for his marine biology class. Word is still out on whether the film involved whales or dolphins. [Towleroad]

• The Meretz political party is the first in Israel to endorse gay marriage. Their catchiest slogan borrows from the Jewish marriage song: "the voice of groom and groom," and "the voice of bride and bride." [365 Gay]

• Virginia's constitution could be amended to ban gay marriage this November, thanks to a ballot measure made possible by (phony) Democratic governor Tim Kaine. [Washington Blade]