The pressure of living in a homophobic society where "don't ask, don't tell" was the modus operandi leads to the composer's death, at the age of 53.

"I would not be a woman in this society," he states, implying that, despite the homophobic society which is shown, this perhaps is the better option.

"They came out of the same homophobic society as everyone else," she said.

There is no homosexual homogenous group, but there is a "homophobic society"?

If there does exist a homophobic society, does that not legitimise "homophobia"?

Does this mean we are a homophobic society?

(...) Latvia and Poland are no less homophobic societies than Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia.

He also wrote that Nepal is a notoriously homophobic society, and that some of the accusers may have their own agendas.

Here, Ms. McClary says, is "a composition by a man who was tormented by his situation within his homophobic society."

In Mr. Julien's hands, the concerns of these avant-garde filmmakers are reconfigured to reflect the nearly mythic complexities of desire in a racist and homophobic society.