Who would think the simple question - Did you ever play team sports - could stir up such a hornet's nest?

STOKES and his boyfriend HARVARD - were born culturally and geographically separate, yet together they feel they have found passionate bliss. STOKES was born in the countryside of Virginia; he stands at six-feet-six, with blond hair and blues eyes. His boyfriend, HARVARD, an ambitious academic of Mexican ancestry, was born in the place of their chance meeting, Los Angeles.

It is not race, but an episode from Stokes' past that threatens to destroy their...