Documentary about the life and work of the poet Audre Lorde, a passionate American visionary whose poetry and prose speak to her deepest convictions - love and anger, civil rights and sexuality, family politics and the glories of nature. She gave voice to a political generation and became a role model not only for Black women, but for everyone who believes, as she did, that "liberation is not the private province of any one particular group." In 1992 Lorde lost her battle with breast cancer but she leaves behind a rich and vital legacy.

After being found in an intimate, sexual encounter with another young man, Perry is thrown out of his house by his family and forced to survive on his own. As he struggles to hold on by working in a homeless shelter and trying to maintain a college scholarship, he is haunted by his homosexuality and becomes increasingly withdrawn due to his family's rejection of him and their condemnation of his desires. Perry’s emotional and psychological journey as a young black gay artist as leads him to discover the hidden legacies of the gay and lesbian subcultures within the Harlem Renaissance.

Q&A with Actor Duane Boutte (Young Bruce in Brother to Brother) and Dorothy Thigpen (Executive Director of Third World Newsreel) will follow the presentation.