Korean-descended director Parick G. Lee's short subject may be seen as a follow-up/companion to Vicky Du's eye-opening Gaysians, in addressing the feelings and values of a group of LGBTQ young people from various Asian cultures.
The opening of the piece takes the form of mock letters and coming-out announcements that these individuals would want to say to their parents—if they could. The rest is largely conversation among the participants.
Emi Grafe's family hails from Burma, though the empowerment performance-art piece that accompanies the lip-syncing drag queen hails more from a Pride festival (after dark). Vietnamese Kevin offers advice he would tell his younger self: "Don't come out on April Fool's Day." Rathini grew up in a transplanted Sri Lankan Tamil enclave in the USA, where homosexuality is often concealed. A self-proclaimed trans person named Julia begs for acceptance; "Good, bad, ugly, it's all me."
It may worth mentioning that all the subjects seem to be college age, and that their queer affirmations seem closely tied to the campus experience. However, broader discussions of where higher education fits in with cultural assimilation, gender "presenting" and the search for identity remain offscreen in the short-subject format. Even at a truncated length (or because of it), the LGBTQ educational documentary fits well on the institutional library shelves as classroom material or student discussion-starter. Aud: P.