Small Town Gay Bar

While we're used to seeing movies about young men and women leaving their hometowns behind to live their lives openly in a big city, Gay Bar shows us the people who have decided to stay in their hometowns but still stake out the life that they choo

Ingram illustrates how gay bars function as oases of acceptance and alternative families for his good-humored, enduring subjects.

Small Town Gay Bar isn't as heart-wrenching as Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning or Daniel G. Karslake's For the Bible Tells Me So, which cover similar territory, but that doesn't make its voices any less valuable.

Small Town Gay Bar explores the world of Deep South queer watering holes, focusing on life around two Mississippi bars, Rumors and Crossroads. Pubs like these are pretty much the only gay oasis to be found outside the local MCC Church.