That the people with whom Brandon feels most at home would kill him if they knew his true gender is the movie's most tragic irony--and the one that lifts it out of the realm of gay-martyr hagiography and into something more complex and  a meditation on the irrelevance of gender.
It is sad to know that those close to him would not approve of his true identity.
They were not afraid to tell the world who they truly were.
It was questionable how someone like that had been drafted to the army.
The dancers are ready to perform
This is referencing
The young people are in a libray
Many people are watching a musician.
A baby is lying dead.