Road Home

One hot summer afternoon, Rex Ogle's sexuality is found out and his father gives him an ultimatum: you can be gay, or you can live here, but not both-and you have twenty-four hours to decide. Rex desperately hopes for a reprieve that doesn't come, and the following day, he leaves. With no place to go, he drives to New Orleans, where he has the phone number of a man he met briefly and kissed once.

This is a story of coming out, a first love that turns to betrayal, assault, and homelessness. R...