Dancing Like Nobody's Watching: Contra Dance

Chicago, late 1980s. The bass is thundering, the lights are pulsing, and on the dance floor of Club LaRay, a generation of Black gay men have found something the outside world refuses to give them: sanctuary, visibility, and freedom.

In the shadow of the AIDS crisis, as friends disappear and the world turns its back, a chosen family comes together in the only place where they can be fully seen-where vulnerability is strength, where intimacy is resistance, and where joy itself becomes an act ...