Boys Don't Cry

In Allegory of the Cave, Plato describes knowlegde as something that needs to be exposed. It needs to be discovered and seen in order for it to be anything significant or true. It made me think that knowledge is something that is mysterious and fearsome at first but once it is shown it changes the entire perspective of things.
In Boys Don't Cry everyone in the town where the setting is located is in a cave of ignorance. No one is educated to do anything but what they habituated themselves to do. They have no idea that the world is beyond what their eyes can see. That is why they feared Brandon and his sexual identity crisis; they've never seen anything like it. From what they've heard in the sources they do have access to (churches or parents), homosexuality or anything in close relation to it is disgusting and sinful. I would say the one person who began to see the light out of the cave would be Lana (besides Brandon) because she accepted him. She accepted him because she knew there was more to the world that she is missing out on. We know this because she is distressed with her living conditions, and she often talked about how much she would like to see and discover things beyond the horizon she can see.