Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: New York City area spends time off driving into city to be with his oldest from Schenectady Alan at gay bar, Fact2: David is singled out to dance by Mark, Fact3: Mark have sex with other men, Fact4: photographer named Jason divorced, Fact5: Jason takes pictures of David while telling him things to say other than cheese
Output (English): The film begins as a minidocumentary of New York Citys 1973 Gay Pride parade and rally, with a young lesbian unabashedly declaring, being gay is a very natural thing. The action cuts to the protagonist, David Robert Joel, going through the ritual of being released from his vocation as a monk in a monastery. He then is seen as a public school teacher of English Literature in the New York City area, who spends his time off driving into the city to be with his oldest friend from Schenectady, Alan Jay Pierce at a gay bar. One evening at the bar, David is singled out to dance by Mark Curt Gareth, who portrays a businessman. They end up spending the night together, which at first seems like a onenight stand until David says hed like to see Mark again, and Mark agrees. Not long after, the pair begin a monogamous relationship, and David moves in with Mark. But when Mark wants to have sex with other men, the relationship starts to break down. He rejects the idea of modeling a gay relationship on heterosexual marriage, and he is irritated that David wants to keep pushing this romantic thing. Mark would rather have an understanding that either of them can have sex with other men when they feel like it, but this ends up alienating them from each other. Mark refuses to say, I love you until David playfully wrestles with him and tells him, Say it...again...once more for good measure. After a year, though, David realizes that the two of them are just marking time. The two go to Fire Island for a weekend in an attempt to spice up their relationship, and although David tries to please Mark by entering an orgy, he cant go through with it. After a fight, David temporarily moves in with his friend Alan, who gives David an objective perspective on what happened. In a later encounter with Mark at Coney Island, David finally realizes that there cant be a reconciliation, as Mark is more interested in sex than a romantic relationship. After a season of loneliness, David meets a divorced photographer named Jason Bo White at the 1973 Gay Pride rally which began the film. David and Jason go to Jasons apartment and talk. In Jason, a divorced dad, we meet another member of the gay community, one who was living a heterosexual life prior to coming out. He still socializes with his exwife, who goes with him on photo shoots. On a parental visit with their toddler son P.J. Jason tells his exwife that he is now seeing someone with whom he would be spending the upcoming Labor Day holiday. It appears that in Jason, David has found someone willing to pursue a romantic, committed relationship with him. Jason takes pictures of David while telling him things to say other than cheese, and the film ends by showing the two men together splashing naked in the surf on Cape Cod.