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Where are We? 

Year: 1992
Country: USA
Director: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Starring: Americans
Synopsis: A gay couple from San Francisco spend 18 days traveling through the southern United States in an effort to better understand Americans who don't have a lot of experience dealing with gay people.
Quick review: It's hard not to be fans of Epstein and Friedman. The quality of gay documentaries they have done is better than anything else out there.  The Celluloid Closet,  Paragraph 175 and the  Times of Harvey Milk are all excellent. Before they could make those classics, they had to cut their teeth on a project that is not as sexy, and this is it. The two men live in San Francisco as openly gay partners. Just after the end of the first Gulf War, they decide to spend nearly three weeks traveling throughout the South in an effort to better understand the people in an area of the country that traditionally opposes gay rights. They do so in a nonjudgmental manner allowing the people to speak for themselves. The strongest segment deals with gay Marines who frequent a gay bar that is on the military's do not patronize list. Soldiers speak about wanting to serve their country, and doing so with honor, and yet having to hide who they are. At first some will only agree to be filmed in the shadows because they don't want to be forced out (this was before 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' when they risked a dishonorable discharge if they were found out). But, they decide to come out anyway, knowing it's the only step that will lead to change. However, this is not really a gay movie. Gay subjects are not really dealt with and no one seems to react to the fact that two of the filmmakers are a gay couple. So we don't really get a sense of how they feel about homosexuality. The film is titled 'Where are We?' but I think a more accurate title might be 'Who are We?' And I'm not quite sure the viewer will like the answer.
 

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