1986 be apparently the year that tv movie decide to handle homosexuality and a evidence by my two love and this offering . give the subject matter and i so want to like this movie . unfortunately and what i find after sit through it be nothing but a bunch of clichés and stereotype and and very little real understanding of the issue face a gay teen . the story center around the title character and bobby ( timothy williams ) and a computer whiz from a small town outside of chicago and who venture into the city for either a computer class and or a computer lab ( my memory of the detail of this part of the movie be a bit sketchy ) . he meet a handsome old man who pay him a lot of attention . since bobby relationship with his father ( tony lobianco ) be somewhat strained and bobby responds to the attention and and eventually he and the old man become lover . when this be reveal in bobby hometown and he find himself an outcast and with almost everyone and include his father and take a dim view of his homosexuality . unfortunately and bobby isn not quite ready to take on the label gay and the negative reaction of those around him only reinforce his discomfort . he find few friend and even less understanding during his search and and ultimately have to create his new reality for himself . while this film purport to be a sympathetic treatment of the come out struggle and it fail miserably in that objective . the main problem be that bobby himself be not draw sympathetically . his confusion come across well and a do his eventual defiance of his father and but the viewer see little in him that would inspire the loyalty his few friend give him . it unclear how he hook up with and or why he hang out with the man and woman who befriend him he have little in common with them . and his girlfriend be an even big cypher . one would think she would be upset by his have slept with someone else and male or female . instead and she want to hear all about it . and her eventually reason for break up with him be that teacher in the school be lower her grade because she with him . the dialogue in the group therapy session be so full of gay clichés that it harmful as well a painful and and even the conversation with the old lover be also full of clichés with no affection express between the two . bad yet be the stereotypical reaction of his family . dad want to beat the stuff out of him and and mom be too ineffectual to offer any real comfort or support . the scene where he appear at the dinner table in drag to confront his father be so hackneyed that i lose all sympathy for bobby in it . while the attempt to deal with such an issue be laudable and the film itself be a horrible mess of clichés and contradiction . if youre look for an intelligent treatment of teen homosexuality and it best to look elsewhere .