A queer singer-songwriter runs from Nashville to find himself and learns that coming home may be the most transformative act of all.
SYNOPSIS
June 2025. In Sumner County, Tennessee, threats shut down the community's annual Pride celebration. The message to queer people is unmistakable: you are not welcome here. It isn't isolated. Tennessee has passed more anti-LGBTQ+ laws than any state—nearly twenty since 2015—banning gender-affirming care, criminalizing drag, and letting officials refuse same-sex marriages. Under Trump's second term, the government followed: Pride Month erased, rainbow flags banned, funding threatened for supporting LGBTQ+ rights. Morgan Karr (he/they)—the singer-songwriter known as "MORGXN"—and his husband, Gabriel "Gabe" Starner, refuse to disappear. Their answer: this is our home too. So they host Pride on their own land: Fruity Farm ("because we grow fruit, and we're gay!"). Nearly 500 people come. For those long searching for somewhere safe, the farm is proof they belong—and a declaration that we're not going back. The film follows them creating community infrastructure in their hometown. Alongside the activism runs MORGXN's own story—soaring vocals and fearless songwriting that have earned him a singular place in alt-pop and folk-pop. The film traces his lifelong mental health struggles, his fight to believe he's worthy of love and belonging, and how he turns that into art. Fruity Farm celebrates identity and love in all their forms, and reckons with the cost of being a tender, defiant queer voice in the American South. But this story isn't only theirs—it's for everyone trying to fight back right now. Morgan's answer is the one the farm makes real: fight for yourselves and each other, locally, at home, in community.
Director Statement
Our nation is being ripped apart by polarization and bigotry, communities are being attacked, and the most vulnerable are further marginalized. We feel overwhelmed and powerless. This film is our answer to this precarious moment.
Audiences are hungry for love, joy, shared humanity, vulnerability, and authenticity. The global phenomenon Heated Rivalry proved people want to watch LGBTQ+ narratives that center love, hope, and visibility. MORGXN embodies that same defiant joy—but in the American South, where the stakes are high and the representation absent.
This isn't a doc about a superstar at their peak. It’s about the struggle we can all relate to. Morgan's journey from running away from Nashville to returning home, from chasing industry validation to building community infrastructure, from wondering if anyone's listening to knowing his art saves lives—this is the arc that illuminates what "making it" actually means.
We have unprecedented access to an artist at the moment he's redefining success while the industry redefines its relationship to queer visibility. We're filming as history happens—and one couple's answer to it.
In dark times, we turn to art, and to each other. MORGXN’s voice is undeniable, his power comes from humility and expansive love, his lyrics inspire, provoke, protect, and save lives. This is the story of one couple in one town, fighting back by building community. It could, and should, be all of us.
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Azza Cohen
Azza Cohen is documentary filmmaker. She runs a nonfiction production company with her wife, Kathleen. Previously, Azza served as official videographer to Vice President Kamala Harris and Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in her historic U.S. Senate campaign. Her short documentary FLOAT! was acquired by The New Yorker and has screened at major festivals including Austin Film Festival, FLICKERS (award for female directing), and DC Shorts (Best Doc, Audience Choice). Azza is a leading thinker on visual sexism and its representation in media, bringing a distinctive visual vision rooted in authority and empowerment to character-driven storytelling. Azza earned a BA from Princeton University, an MA from the University of Galway in Culture & Colonialism, and an MFA from Stanford University in Documentary Film & Video.
Kathleen Borschow
Kathleen Borschow is a Yale and Harvard Law School-educated public interest lawyer, leader, and organizer. After discovering her queerness and meeting Azza in 2022, Kathleen fell in love not only with her future wife, but with visual storytelling as a vehicle to change the world. Plus, she’s obsessed with her wife and couldn’t imagine spending all day every day with anyone else! She’s a self-taught video and film editor, producer, and director rooted in her deep experience in political and strategic communications, organizing, advocacy, and management including in the U.S. Senate, Biden-Harris Campaign, Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight, and Queers for Kamala. She brings a sharp eye and big heart to transforming complex ideas into compelling visual narratives that make it all the way from ideation to the screen.
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