U.S. of ANT

ANT makes a pit stop in alligator country to find out what the Sunshine State has to offer. The first stop is Jacksonville, where he gets plucked, tucked, browned and tenderized with Eric, a Florida student preparing for a beauty contest.

While visiting Texas, ANT learns that there may be more to Bush-country than meets the eye. In Austin, he runs into a gay comedian preparing to audition for Last Comic Standing ?

A quick visit to his home state of New Hampshire teaches ANT that times can change. First, it?s a quick game of b-ball with Team Queens vs. Team Lesbos, where ANT meets a mother and daughter who have more in common then they ever imagined. Next, ANT travels back in time and meets up with a childhood friend and teacher, finding out what it?s like to be gay in a New Hampshire high school today. Bringing his visit to a close in South Hampton, ANT spends some time with two openly gay cops and fulfills a lifelong dream of riding in a police car.

ANT drives on down to North Carolina, home of NASCAR, and discovers an accepting and progressive southern community. A quick detour finds ANT helping Mary, Karen and their children hold an impromptu picket when the local Y refuses to recognize them as a family.

ANT lands in the Deep South and finds out that for the gay folks living there, it truly is sweet home Alabama. In Birmingham, ANT befriends a lesbian construction worker who, despite being once rejected by her family, shares a message of hope and understanding.

In the heart of Mississippi, ANT learns how diverse and accepting townspeople can be in the deep south. In a visit to a community united after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, our hero teams up with an armed lesbian bounty hunter to track a fugitive looter.

ANT travels to big sky country Montana where he finds tolerance in the most unlikely places. ANT's first stop is the working-class town of Butte where he finds a group of young men and women who are rewriting the rules of sexual identity.