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A highly textured film that travels back to the early 1980s, Small Town Secrets documents a woman’s exploration of her childhood growing up with two closeted gay parents in a small, midwestern town.

A highly textured film that travels back to the early 1980s, Small Town Secrets documents a woman’s exploration of her childhood growing up with two closeted gay parents in a small, midwestern town. Weaving together a collection of home movies and conversations with her parents recorded via webcam, Small Town Secrets remembers why keeping it a secret felt like the only option.

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Through understated, beautifully rendered images … Small Town Secrets lends a unique twist to the coming-out narrative, and is a valuable document for studies in the psychology of parent-child relationships and the history of sexuality in middle America.

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