“I feel real when you touch me. I feel real when you kiss me. I feel real when you want me." Deep dive into transmasculine desire for cisgender gay men in this sexy, intimate doc-fiction hybrid by Jules Rosskam (Dance Dance Evolution, Frameline43). Ahmad, an Iranian American transgender man, explores his gay desires as he travels back and forth in time from a queer archive in the present with Kieran (played by Theo Germaine from Showtime’s Work in Progress), to a gay bathhouse in the past, walking the halls and bumping shoulders, and more, with cis men back in time.

Transcestor Lou Sullivan, a female-to-gay-male activist in the 1980s, comes alive through archival footage and letters, blazing the trail that present day transmasc folks experience as they talk openly and frankly about their experiences of sex with cis gay men. These illuminating and occasionally humorous stories run the gamut from PrEP to fetishization, from Grindr to sex work, from racialized sexuality to fisting. Winner of the NEXT Special Jury Award at Sundance, Desire Lines is a revolutionary declaration of following one’s authentic desire.