This movie is relevant on two levels. It is one of the more accurate portrayals of the pressures that are placed on kids in high school to fit in and not to vary from the accepted norm; and the punishment they face when they do dare to be different and true to themselves.
I was a gay teenager in high school in the early 70's and lived in Harrisburg, PA during TMI. So I found it easy to identify with the characters and events in "Steam Cloud Rising".