*** Is...

Marc Huestis edits interviews with 15 men, including himself, around a set of topics starting with "what is ***?" The men are gay, living in or near San Francisco. They talk about their first ***ual experiences, the gay scene in San Francisco in the late 1970s, the pall cast by AIDS, the safe-*** movement, getting into serious relationships, the illness and death of partners, ***ography, S/M and pain, race and stereotypes, personal fantasies, and bliss. Huestis has a thesis, that *** is going to be with us, so how best do we embrace it? His 15 subjects, archival footage, clips from *** films, and close-up looks at men loving men flesh out various answers.