from the counter clerk, who has been loudly reading out the titles. At Hope House, Alex gives in to her growing attraction to Grace and they kiss passionately in a supply room. Sloan catches them and spreads the story all over town. After Tomas paints Mark's dining room, they go out on a dinner date, where Mark learns that Tomas stumbled into the ex-gay meeting by mistake. After dinner they go to Tomas's studio and Tomas shows Mark his paintings. They make love. Reaction is immediate and hostile, with Alex suffering indignities great and small, everything from the breakup of her marriage to the closing of her credit account at the local fried pie shop. Following this, Mark gains the courage to break up with the woman he's been dating as a "beard" and to come out to his father. He demands that his father drop the story on the water supply (testing proves that the water is completely ordinary) and stop the negative coverage of Hope House. Mark and Tomas and Alex and Grace go out dancing at a big-city gay club, where they see Ray Ray, the son of Alex's family housekeeper, performing as a drag queen called Obsession. Ray Ray leads Mark and Tomas to a leather bar where they catch ex-gay leader Brother Daniel in full leather gear (Mark has a photo published in the paper to discredit Brother Daniel's anti-Hope House protests). Meanwhile, Alex and Grace go to a hotel room where they make love for the first time. Back in Azalea Springs, Spencer's lover Bruce dies of AIDS-related complications. At his funeral, Alex's father comforts her and her mother, while still upset over Alex's lesbianism, shows that she still loves her daughter (by insulting her shoes, something she's done repeatedly through the film). Cast Keri Jo Chapman as Alex Stratton Teresa Garrett as Grace Miller Derrick Sanders as Mark Anderson Timothy Vahle as Tomas Barbara Lasater as Lily Talbott Nancy Chartier as Sloan Beverly May as Vivien Bracken Kathy Morath as Pamela Hughs Matthew Tompkins as Robert Stratton (credited as Matthew S.Tompkins) John Hallum as Spencer Larry Randolph as Bruce Susan Largo as Elizabeth Miller Liz Mikel as Viola Johnson Dion Culberson as Ray 'Ray-Ray' Johnson (also as 'Obsession') John Addington as Brother Daniel Gail Cronauer as Harriet Reviews AfterEllen.com summed up with "the film is cheesy but enjoyable. There aren't many lesbian romantic