My 17 Gay Friends, a multi-narrative film glimpses into the lives of 17 diverse, gay friends in the LGBT community in Beijing, showing their different personalities, living situations, past histories, relationships with one another and show the richness of LGBT people in all their complexities. It also pokes fun at stereotypes and labels that often cut across the LGBT community such as femininity and masculinity in the gay community and how it affects our perceptions of gay people and categorizes people into distinct groups. The film seeks to portray an optimistic, light-hearted side of gay life in urban modern cities in order to show that homosexuality need not always be associated with depression, suicide, and a life of tragedy.