It's 1996 and Jeremy has met the British boy of his dreams - just as amid a media frenzy US
Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act denying same-sex couples federal rights
including immigration. The pair snatch time in forests and deserts London fashion shows
Berlin sex clubs and East Village hotel rooms. Finding no other way to stay together they
shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in San Francisco. Deep House moves through the
couple's domiciles while unlocking doors to a lineage of gay men who have come before -
smuggling a foreign partner through national checkpoints or going public to stand up for the
right to get down in the privacy of their own homes. They include hapless criminals sexpot
bartenders friars pirates government workers who subvert the system and activists who go all
the way to the Supreme Court. Juxtaposing disclosures of undocumented domesticity with
courtroom drama to explore myriad forms of intimacy Deep House is at once a historical
kaleidoscope and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a
turbulent civil rights battle.
