Morgan is about a paraplegic man putting his life back together after a bicycle racing accident leaves his paralyzed.
United Gay Network is a production house founded by Michael D. Akers and Sandon Berg.
As Berg stated in a radio interview, he and Akers were striving to create stories that would crossover to a broader audience.
The lead character, a young athlete, named Morgan Oliver, is first seen wallowing in a state of depression, drowning his sorrows in beer as he watches bicycle racing (the sport that at once defined his sense of purpose and drove him to his catalytic accident) on television.
UGN's first long feature film, Gone, But Not Forgotten, was considered groundbreaking and to have set the pace for normalizing the portrayal of gay people in cinema.
[4] Matrimonium was a foray into comedy that played to reality show hype, while addressing homosexual stereotypes, and Phoenix was yet another step, into the suspenseful and mysterious journey of two jilted lovers following the trail of their mutual betrayer.