After one of his colleagues pointed some questionable behavior towards the LGBTQIA+ community and a ridiculous conversation about Oscar Wilde with his sister, this middle-aged man realizes there're some issues he needs to address. 

SYNOPSIS:

"The Cult of the Clitoris"

After one of his colleagues pointed some questionable behavior towards the LGBTQIA+ community and a ridiculous conversation about Oscar Wilde with his sister, this middle-aged man realizes there're some issues he needs to address.

Michael Richardson had never thought about himself as a homophobic man, but his friends and Diana, his sister, beg to differ. Following her advice, Mike ends up at the local LGBTQIA+ Center, looking for some answers. That's where he meets Anthony, the head coordinator of the Center, who invites him to a game. He finds amusing the idea of putting Mike through a sort of exposure therapy.

Self-awareness and evolution are not things people would associate with him. Then he meets Talia, a transgender woman who tends to gravitate to unavailable men, and everything changes.

After spending some time with her and her friends, Mike starts to understand how deep the internal homophobia runs in his family. And how his father played a key role in the way he treats people. With these new dynamics in his relationships, Mike struggles to change the intolerant version of "what a man should be" for one more honest and empathetic. Even if he knows that to stay under his father's good graces, he shouldn't turn his life around or be with the person he loves.

Everything falls apart when he has to choose, and Talia decides to leave before Mike even makes a decision. He lets her go without fighting and stays miserable for months. By chance, Mike sees Talia leaving a restaurant with another man. He follows them to Talia's house and sees how the man kisses her at the doorstep. That's when he realizes that he made a mistake letting her go, so when the other man leaves, Mike knocks desperately. After a long conversation through a closed door, Talia unlocks it and lets him in again.

Mike Richardson: Middle-aged white man. Architect. He works at his father's firm as a Construction Manager. Fears spiders and feather boas.

Diana Richardson: The sister. 26. A nurse, Med School student. Annoyingly right about everything all the time.

Charles Richardson: The father. Businessman. 70ish. On trophy wife number 3. Homophobic. Racist. Someone you want to punch in the face every time he speaks.

Talia Miller: The girlfriend. Artist. Sales manager in an Art Gallery. 30ish. Transgender. Too smart for her own good.

Anthony Johnson: The Therapist. Head coordinator at LGBTQIA+ Center. 25. Professional prankster. Little shit.

Carl Anderson: The colleague. Project Manager at the Architecture Firm. 40ish. Gay. Devastatingly handsome. A pain in Mike's ass.

Behind "The Cult of the Clitoris"

In June of 1918, a libel suit fought out in London’s Central Criminal

Court brought to the surface the bizarre rumour that sex-starved English women, deprived by the war of male companionship, were turning to lesbianism. The affair centred on Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé.

When news got out that the Canadian dancer

Maud Allan was to appear in a private performance of Salomé in April

of 1918, Captain Harold Spencer attacked her in the columns of a

scurrilous tabloid called 'The Vigilante' with an article sensationally

entitled ‘The Cult of the Clitoris’. In it Spencer made the astounding

claim that Wilde’s play was not only immoral but its current production part of a German plot to undermine British wartime resolve.

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