Dear Jesse 1998

A gay New York filmmaker, Tim Kirkman, returns home to North Carolina to examine his relationship to the anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms: A series of coincidences marks the lives of Tim Kirkman and Jesse Helms. Both are from Monroe, NC, and were raised as Southern Baptists. Both attended Wingate College for year before transferring to other schoold. Both worked in journalism and radio. And, according to Kirkman, both have been obsessed with homosexual men for the last 20 years.