God Save the Queens

Gay... So What? documents the lives of different gay, lesbian and transgendered people in Germany, France, Spain and Cuba. In each region, director Jean Baptiste Erreca follows a different person or persons as they experience the oppression and repression that gay, lesbian and transgendered people often face.

Saïd and his sister Miriam both idolize their adopted older brother Karim. But Karim must make certain that his siblings never know just how he makes his living...

Arno, in his thirties, is a transgender man married to Emilie. Four years ago, they decided to give birth to a child, little Arthur. This intimate family portrait tells us about the journey, the doubts and the hopes of this seemingly ordinary "new family". More broadly, it questions the patriarchal family order and bears witness to the universality of parental love.

Using interviews, personal testimonies, clips from films and television, re-enactments of gay bashings, lists of epithets used internationally, and other powerful graphics image, this French documentary explores the similarities and differences of anti-gay hate worldwide. Algeria, China, Cuba, England, France, Guinea, India, Iran, Jamaica, Romania, and the United States are among the countries investigated where lesbians and gay men regularly report physical and/or verbal violence endorsed by politicians, religious leaders, and the citizenry: Salim is sent back from France to Algeria for ‘’re-education’’; Cornelia flees Mugabe’s homophobic regime in Zimbabwe; and Phillipe is forced to resign as deputy mayor in the French provinces.