The film follows Kelli Peterson in 1995 as she establishes a club open to both gay and straight students at her high school in Salt Lake City. Her struggle with the school administration is interwoven with historical glimpses into the lives of others fighting for acceptance. These include the 17th-century Puritan cleric Michael Wigglesworth, the decades-long relationship between Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, Henry Gerber's early efforts to form a gay rights organization after World War I, Bayard Rustin's work in the civil rights movement, and Barbara Gittings' challenge to the American Psychiatric Association's classification of homosexuality as a disease. As one character observes, understanding the past is essential for shaping the present.
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