For more than a decade now, gay and lesbian participants have been excluded from Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade by the event’s organizers, the Ancient Order of the Hibernians. This documentary follows the founding of an alternative, "all-inclusive" parade in Queens by the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization (ILGO). A celebration of the gay Irish community, the parade is a focal point for activists and a proud rebuff to the prejudice and discrimination of conservative Irish America.

This touching documentary centers on Stanley and Kathleen Ryger, an Irish American couple who tell the tragic story of their gay son Robert, a spokesperson for ACT-UP who died from AIDS. Forced to come to terms with their own homophobia, Stanley and Kathleen are now gay rights activists and honor the memory of their son with this loving tribute. Life, they inform us, is far too short to allow fear and prejudice to limit to our abilities to love.