| Director | Mark Kenneth Woods, Michael Yerxa |
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The film explores the small but burgeoning community of LGBT Inuit living in Nunavut, amidst the backdrop of the establishment of an LGBT Pride festival in the territorial capital of Iqaluit;
The film explores various perspectives on the historical context of LGBT identity and sexuality among the Inuit, including the cultural and religious influence of the Roman Catholic Church on traditional Inuit spirituality and society. According to Inuit elders, the concepts of LGBT identity and long-term same-sex relationships were not known among the Inuit, but same-sex sexual activity was common and accepted — particularly as a remedy for social and sexual isolation during the annual period when men and women were segregated from each other by the gender roles imposed by the traditional hunting season — until Catholicism emerged as a dominant influence on Inuit society in the 1950s.
Figures appearing in the film include filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, politicians Jack Anawak and Paul Okalik, and activists Allison Brewer, Nuka Fennell and Jesse Mike.
The film takes its name from the Inuktitut language words for lesbian and gay, which literally translate as "two soft things rubbing together" and "two hard things rubbing together", respectively.