57 min.



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Rather than approaching homophobia with conflict, gay filmmakers/husbands Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer try something new for this 2009 film documentary: listen to the opposition. The result is both revealing and inspiring.

When Joe and Dean send their wedding announcement to Joe's hometown newspaper in Oil City, Pennsylvania, it catches the eye of Kathy Springer, whose son C.J. is being taunted for his sexuality in high school. While C.J. is a sports-loving jock, he's constantly under threat of bodily harm at school from his bigoted classmates. Kathy reaches out to Joe and Dean who respond by grabbing their film equipment to see just what's going on in this conservative rust-belt town.

Among the people they meet is Diane Gramley, local organizer for the American Family Association, who incites the town against Kathy and C.J. to the point where they receive a death threat. But the filmmakers also develop an unlikely friendship with a fundamentalist preacher and his wife --- and the town itself begins to change: A lesbian couple whose renovation of a long-abandoned local theater inspires the town, which ignores the boycott of the theater called by the local bigots.