(MM) Gabriella West - Elsie Street

Boston native Dave Madden has just been fired from a dead-end bartending job in San Francisco after a homophobic scene by the owner pushes him to his breaking point. His long-suffering girlfriend helps him get a job at the nearby Legion of Honor Museum as a guard. But what Dave finds there will challenge his whole sense of identity. For despite a fling with a college roommate that ended too soon for his liking, he considers himself straight.

When Dave encounters woozy young Aaron Andersen at an art event—openly gay, with a house of his own in SF's hip Bernal Heights neighborhood—he at first sees the 24-year-old techie as a harmless nerd and offers to drive him home. But Aaron soon has a hold on Dave, and as the men's lives become more intertwined, Dave finds himself falling into an unexpected and passionate relationship, one that will require all his loyalty and commitment, and his faith in love.

Both men are damaged characters, and Dave wants to be good for Aaron. But can their new life together on Elsie Street as an openly gay couple really work out?