The Delta: Across the Lines (opens in new tab)

Sexuality—how one defines it, lives with it, hides it, shuns it, or wields it—is inextricable from matters of socioeconomic class, though rare is the American film that centralizes this intersectional reality. The foundational myth of the American dream puts forth the idea that we can transcend the class into which we are born. On a parallel track, sexuality has long been sold as fixed, a definitive, biological understanding of identity. This ideological contradiction is at the core of Ira Sa...