Take the following as truth: That the people with whom Brandon feels most at home would kill him if they knew his true gender is the movie's most tragic irony--and the one that lifts it out of the realm of gay-martyr hagiography and into something more complex and  a meditation on the irrelevance of gender.
Then the following statement: "They lived in the south." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: Inconclusive