Doug Hitzel, a young man, reveals that after a year of unsuccessful dating he gave in to unprotected sex in an attempt to fit in; he is then seen crying.
The film, titled after a poem by Wheeler, details the abuse he received at the hands of his classmates because of his homosexuality. It also presents interviews and a cross-nation road-trip with members of Young Gay America, an online teen organization for gays, and compares the teasing and physical abuse Jim suffered to the increasingly open attitudes towards homosexuality six years later when the film was first shown.
À Reims, en septembre 2002, François Chenu, 29 ans, est battu à mort dans un parc. Les trois Boneheads, reconnus coupables devant la cour d'assises, ont agi par homophobie après avoir voulu, selon leur expression, « casser de l'arabe ». La famille de François se livre, dans un douloureux processus de deuil, en rejetant résolument la haine. Ce n'est pas un film sur l'homophobie d'abord, c'est aussi un film sur le deuil et le pardon, l'impossibilité de pardonner.
“The Gay Marriage Thing” follows Gayle and Lorre, thirtysomething college sweethearts who marked their 15th anniversary a year after the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled a ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
The film opens with a rapid montage of visuals that transport people back to the 1970s in and around Greenwich Village. Driving disco music of the time sets the pace. Using intimate interviews it begins to develop the story of gay sex in the 70′s through characters such as Larry Kramer, Scott Bromley, Barton Benes, Rodger McFarlane, and others. These characters begin to expand the elements that were visually introduced. They talk about the public sex: the streets, the piers, and the trucks.