How does a neighborhood become more than the sum of its streets? How does it become a homeland for people across the globe?

It’s the 1950s: Eureka Valley is a sleepy Irish neighborhood and the families who’ve lived here for generations are leaving for the suburbs. Meanwhile across town, many in San Francisco’s gay community are looking for a new, quieter neighborhood, and Eureka Valley fits the bill. Among these early pioneers is Mike Gerry, who becomes the first openly gay businessman in the neighborhood. Mike and his friends face social stigma and police brutality.  But Mike finds freedom in drag, performing as the glamorous “Michelle”.

Over 20 years, Mike watches as a tidal wave of gay people arrive in his neighborhood, transforming Eureka Valley into the Castro. Harvey Milk leads the charge to turn the Castro into a gay homeland, a place from which his people can claim equal rights under a Rainbow Flag. But is Milk’s Castro truly inclusive? Or does his version of a gay homeland exclude more radical ideas of queerness?