Fact1: Alex is married Junior Leaguer with penchant for interesting shoes, Fact2: Junior League chapter 's annual project is to volunteer at Hope House, Fact3: AIDS hospice opened in home town of Azalea Springs, Fact4: best friend had moved to Azalea Springs to work at Hope House as nurse, Fact5: night at town 's annual Azalea Ball tells society matron
Output: Alex is a married Junior Leaguer with a penchant for interesting shoes. Her Junior League chapters annual project is to volunteer at Hope House, an AIDS hospice that recently opened in her home town of Azalea Springs, Texas. Alex and her League friends, including her friend Sloan, tour Hope House. Alex runs into her best friend Spencer, whose lover Bruce is a resident, and Grace, a friend from high school who had recently moved back to Azalea Springs to work at Hope House as a nurse. That night at the towns annual Azalea Ball, a drunken Spencer tells a society matron that his homosexuality was caused by drinking the local water. An equally drunken Sloan overhears and spreads the story. A panic ensues, with the local newspaper printing the story and commissioning testing of the water supply. Mark, the son of the publisher, objects to his father, but because Mark is himself struggling with his homosexuality and attending meetings of an exgay group at the local church, hes limited in what he can do to mitigate the story and the resultant damage. The leader of the exgay group, Brother Daniel, announces plans to protest for the closing of Hope House. Alex and Grace renew their friendship and Grace comes out as a lesbian to her. Grace returned to Azalea Springs because her husband found out about an affair she was having with another woman and is now in prison for assaulting Grace. At an exgay meeting, Mark meets Tomas, a painter. Mark hires Tomas to repaint his dining room. The Junior League decides not to continue volunteering at Hope House. Alex, whos resigned from the League, goes to work fulltime at the hospice over her husband Roberts objections. Alex develops some curiosity about her possible lesbianism and rents a number of classic lesbianthemed films: Desert Hearts; Lianna; Personal Best; Heavenly Creatures; Bar Girls; Claire of the Moon; The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love; an unnamed, presumably pornographic video; and, mixed in among them, The Godfather Part III, which serves as mainstream cover for the other selections and elicits a bemused look from the counter clerk, who has been loudly reading out the titles. At Hope House, Alex gives in to her growing attraction to Grace and they kiss passionately in a supply room. Sloan catches them and spreads the story all over town. After Tomas paints Marks dining room, they go out on a dinner date, where Mark learns that Tomas stumbled into the exgay meeting by mistake. After dinner they go to Tomass studio and Tomas shows Mark his paintings. They make love. Reaction is immediate and hostile, with Alex suffering indignities great and small, everything from the breakup of her marriage to the closing of her credit account at the local fried pie shop. Following this, Mark gains the courage to break up with the woman hes been dating as a beard and to come out to his father. He demands that his father drop the story on the water supply testing proves that the water is completely ordinary and stop the negative coverage of Hope House. Mark and Tomas and Alex and Grace go out dancing at a bigcity gay club, where they see Ray Ray, the son of Alexs family housekeeper, performing as a drag queen called Obsession. Ray Ray leads Mark and Tomas to a leather bar where they catch exgay leader Brother Daniel in full leather gear Mark has a photo published in the paper to discredit Brother Daniels antiHope House protests. Meanwhile, Alex and Grace go to a hotel room where they make love for the first time. Back in Azalea Springs, Spencers lover Bruce dies of AIDSrelated complications. At his funeral, Alexs father comforts her and her mother, while still upset over Alexs lesbianism, shows that she still loves her daughter by insulting her shoes, something shes done repeatedly through the film.