Being gay or lesbian and Black in America, and the particular weight of rejection when it comes from family and church, is the subject here. Director John Smith gathers politicians, clergy, academics, and activists to talk about what stigmatization inside the African-American community actually costs people, and lets marginalized individuals tell their own stories of alienation alongside them. Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. James Forbes, Rev. Carol L. Murray, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, Mayor Ken Reeves, and Cornel West all appear, each making some version of the same argument: that the historic Black struggle for freedom and inclusion is incompatible with excluding gay and lesbian members of the same community. The film treats the Christian love ethic not as an obstacle to acceptance but as its strongest available argument, and stays close to testimony rather than statistics. Its case rests on the people speaking, not on data, and it ends where it starts, asking the community to reconcile faith and family with the people it has pushed out.