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"Boys on the Side" focuses certain issues in a positive, optimistic manner. Usually, when there is a movie about lesbian friendships, especially interracial, the perspective is different. Oppression and persecution take the forefront, and that is all the characters think about. It ends up driving all of their decisions. In "Boys on the Side" they show a normal life. Are the hardships that everyone has to face? Yes, but they all manage to live. They carry on positive relationships with anyone, and their joy really spreads because of it. There is more focus on the characters in the relationship than the indentity politics of each of them.