Among Brokeback Mountain’s numerous wins at the Golden Globe awards in January was a trophy for Best Original Song, which went to Gustavo Santaolalla and Bernie Taupin for “A Love That Will Never Grow Old.” The soundtrack, just one of several from 2005’s bounty of GLBT films, was also nominated. What follows is a roundup of some of the other soundtracks and scores from Hollywood’s gayest year on record.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, who portrays the brilliant but tortured late gay writer Truman Capote, also took home a Golden Globe award (among others) for his astounding performance. Ten recordings of Capote himself, reading from his book In Cold Blood, make up a sizable portion of Capote: The Album (RCA/Legacy), the soundtrack to the movie that includes Mychael Danna’s stirring score.

Like Hoffman, actress Felicity Huffman received a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of male-to-female transsexual Bree in TransAmerica. The 21 tracks on TransAmerica: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Nettwerk America) include dialogue from the film as well as the song “Travellin’ Thru,” composed for the movie by Dolly Parton.

Suave and sexy Pierce Brosnan shattered everyone’s image of him when he played bisexual hit man Julian Noble in Richard Shepard’s The Matador. His natural comedic gifts rose to the surface and his performance has earned him numerous accolades. The Matador: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Superb) contains Rolfe Kent’s original score as well as vintage selections by The Jam, Tom Jones, The Cramps and others.

The Producers was a movie, then a Broadway musical and finally a movie musical. If having out actor Nathan Lane playing the lead role of Max Bialystock doesn’t make the movie or The Producers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sony Classical) gay enough for you, consider the show-stopper “Keep it Gay,” sung by, among others, another out actor, Gary Beach.

With Billy Elliot: The Musical (Decca Broadway), the 2000 comedy/drama hit film Billy Elliot appears be to following a trajectory similar to The Producers. A movie version of the musical hasn’t been announced yet, at least not that I know of. In the meantime, with a score by Elton John, which sounds more like a traditional stage musical than his The Lion King or Aida did, and the story of the little boy who wanted to be a dancer, the gay quotient simply goes through the roof.

The indescribably offensive, yet oddly amusing film The Aristocrats, about a notorious joke among comedians, basically consists of an old boys club of comedy. However, lesbian comedian Judy Gold and gay comedian Mario Cantone contribute their two cents to the proceedings and can be heard on the soundtrack recording The Aristocrats: Audio Companion to the Hit Film (V2).

The CD reissue of the classic The Warriors: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (A&M) features performances by a couple of openly gay performers. Arnold McCuller performs a cover of the Motown hit “Nowhere to Run” (on which the late Luther Vandross sings backup), and Desmond Child, who has made a name for himself writing hit songs for other artists (including Cher, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin and many more) can be heard singing “Last of an Ancient Breed.”

Chicago Public Radio Presents StoryCorps (chicagopublicradio.org) is a double-disc set of stories collected (recorded) in the StoryCorps MobileBooth located on the grounds of Chicago’s Field Museum for a few weeks in late summer 2005. The oral histories, which will be archived at the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center, include “Fighting Battles” in which African-American lesbians Millicent Gordon and Ann Johnson, who married in Canada, tell of their longtime partnership and growing up in the segregated South. In “Living With HIV,” AIDS activist Jim Pickett is joined by David Munar, as they talk about the difficulties of living with the disease.