Winner of the best feature awards at both the New York and Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals, Chocolate Babies focuses on an underground band of HIV-positive, queer, transvestite activists of color who are making headlines in New York. In an effort to expose political corruption surrounding the AIDS epidemic, these urban guerrillas stage a series of surprise attacks against conservative politicians they believe are collecting secret lists of HIV-positive individuals. The masterminds behind the action include diva Max Mo-Freak, a sex-crazed cross-dresser with attitude, a junkie transvestite songstress, and an idealistic young Asian militant. Caught up in their extreme methods of activism and self-destructive drug and alcohol binges, the group becomes torn by infighting and begins to lose sight of its mission and the members’ loyalty to each other.

This documentary is an expose of the rising subculture of Black and Latino gay youth born in the late 1970s and 1980s who were inspired by and now represent the hip-hop generation. Maintaining the aggressive hyper-masculine image and attitudes promoted by the culture, they are nonetheless openly gay, in contradiction to the stereotypical image of homosexuals. Through interviews with these "Homo Thugs," we come to know gay rappers, "Bloods" gang members, pimps, and prostitutes who struggle to maintain dignity as part of a gay minority in a subculture that is biased against the rising gay lifestyle.