Sweetly It Turns 

Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.

Battles will come and go and queer people do die for their identity and fights for rights, but that doesn’t mean the gays don’t deserve their happy endings in stories.

Can a homeless yet optimistic teenage girl learn to accept a helping hand?

Izzy and Prince Thomas learn that taking control of their own destiny requires following their hearts and making their own decisions.

How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?