“Cowboy Boots” explores the intersection of accepting one’s sexual identity and trying to find the community in which it can reside. It is at once a dive into the longings and desires of a young, rural recently-out cowboy from Nebraska and the realities of being a newcomer in San Francisco, entering a gay bar for the first time, and looking at the interactions and relationships within underground queer culture. A world that he doesn’t know or understand. While the story is queer in nature, the themes of finding one’s place, and the discomfort that comes along with doing so, are universal. “Cowboy Boots” was originally published in 2005 as a short story in Instant City: A Literary Exploration of San Francisco.

The short film will be followed by a talk with the film’s writer, and director, Eric Delehoy.

Free admission.