Young farmer Jack Gudmanson unearths an artifact buried deep in the soil of his family's farmland, leading him to seek the truth about his missing father's clandestine identity and providing him with the courage to come to terms with his own sexuality. Set against a vast and beautiful Midwestern landscape around the Fourth of July, ALKALI, IOWA poetically depicts the struggling emergence of gay identity in America's heartland. 

Dead Boys Club
The East Village.  1992.  Toby, fresh from UW, comes to spend the summer with his older cousin (Packard) whose lover (John R) has just died of AIDS. Toby is shy and the openly-gay society shuts him down, but ... when Packard gives him a pair of John R's party shoes, Toby puts them on and  has powerful visions of pre-AIDS '70s New York.  When the shoes are on, Toby is more sure of himself, even cocky.  In a 2nd Avenue bar, he meets a hot East Villager (Dick) and wakes up in his bed.  What exactly did they do?  How will he handle it? What will happen to Toby?  And how can he get rid of these shoes?

HEARTLAND
HG, 21, lives a happy and openly gay life in New York where he is an anthropology student. He must return to Iowa to help his alcoholic father save the family farm. He no longer feels he is a member of his family tribe but digs into the work alongside his father and a young hired man,Ryan, who has his own set of problems. After HG's father becomes ill, the two young men are forced to work together, and find that they have more in common than they would have thought.