I don't understand how the patriot was gay, more than 3/4's of the movie is Mel and Heath just shooting muskets into peoples faces, or Mel throwing his fucking hatchet into the chests of red coats. It was pretty action packed from my stand point. I guess you could call it gay that he "fell in love" with a woman, but in the end that chick and the whole town get burned down to a crisp in a church so.... i guess thats "gay".
the knights tale u could say was gay, but the chick in it was very hot, and it showed jousting back then (even if not accurate) and not too many movies are based on that. I thought it was a good movie and I'm the first to say "GAY", and not watch a movie. Besides it was more of a comedy, and his "group" of helpers were more of the movie than he was.
have not seen Brokeback yet, but Lords of Dogtown was AWESOME and he looked like a perfect joker, sooooooo ya, good actor.