Vincent Gagliostro and Avram Finkelstein, each significant artists in their own right, collaborated on some of the most recognizable political messaging to come out of the early moments of the AIDS crisis in New York, and were then instrumental in the formulation of the queer identity that followed in the footsteps of AIDS. With Lumberville, they collaborate as writing partners, and aim their queer gaze at the fraught, wild, and tense American political moments of the early 21st Century, when everything is up for grabs, but filled with the radical potential, wonder, and promise that has always been the core of the American frontier. Lumberville is part American folk saga, part State of the Queer Union, and proof of the things that just don’t seem possible anymore. It’s a portrait of what it means to be mapped and still feel displaced, and to be an American and an outsider at the same time.