before see this movie and you may say to yourself and peter berlin . what the big deal . but stay with it and a the story be reward . director jim tushinski obviously saw a chance to put the urban gay lib era of the seventy under a microscope by focus on one man story instead of a general documentary and the man he focus on just happen to be the icon of gay sexual life at a certain crossroad . the film imagery be evocative and the sexuality palpable and and the cameo from armistead maupin and robert w. richards and and others be witty . but the best moment of this film be during mr. berlin touch recollection about his own life . a berlin talk candidly about the loss he experience a the seventy fade into the reagan year and it impossible to look away partly because there be so many men whose experience be reflect in his story . it during these revelation that tushinski know to keep the camera train closely on his subject and and these moment be what elevate this film from historical document to rivet cinema .