Paris is Burning and Jim in Bold, two films centering around homosexuality, highlight the challenges gay individuals faced in two different time periods of the 1980s to the mid 2000s. Paris is Burning, filmed in Harlem, New York City during the late 1980s, shows how homosexuality remained atypical in everyday society. This film highlights the drag balls that these individuals attended, showing that those events acted as an escape from the cruelty of their community. Twenty years later, Jim in Bold aired for the first time. This film tracks the cross-country tour of a group of gay youth, as they shared the spirit of Jim Wheeler with the rest of young, gay America. Jim Wheeler, a gay young man from Lebanon, Pennsylvania, spent majority of life
