Taking Our Chances

Overview

The film is comprised of 20 very personal interviews with gay men living in San Francisco—all of them 32 or younger - who the director either knew personally, had met online, or just out on the street. The first part of the film is set up as a kind of sexual cartography that tries to “map out the rough contours of sex,” what turns these guys on, who they have sex with, why they have sex, etc. And then it moves on to explore how HIV fits within that map, how the picture gets complicated, where fear and ignorance enter the picture, where HIV is close in proximity, and what the circumstances around some folks’ seroconversion were.