transgender
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Queerguru’s. Jose Mayorgas reviews “CUT TO DAVID ” a Chinese-American transgender teen raised in a Jewish household in Boston
An invitation into the routine of an American family of three where respect prevails, and the youngest member is smoothly transitioning from female to male. This smart, sensitive documentary, written, produced, and directed by Sandy Jaffe, tells the story of her transgender son. Through video footage filmed since the child was a baby, viewers get…
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Victoria Cruz , veteran activist for both the Transgender Community + anti Violence League has died aged 70
It is with great sadness that Queerguru has learned of the death of Victoria Cruz, a larger-than-life compassionate figure in the New York transgender community who was at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 when a police raid set in motion the gay liberation movement, and who later worked as an advocate for survivors of anti-trans…
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Queerguru reviews MAJOR! the story of iconic transgender legend Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Annalise Ophelian’s documentary MAJOR! is an affectionate profile of one of the greatest leaders of the transgender community Major Griffin-Gracy who has just died aged 78. Known to most people simply as Miss Major or Major she is a larger-than-life old school activist who leads by example helping literally hundreds of trans-women of color,…
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THE DADS. this excellent ‘must see’ Netflix doc is about Six fathers of LGBTQ children who bond during a fishing trip in rural Oklahoma.
Filmmaker Luchina Fisher’s couldn’t have timed the release of her excellent new Netflix documentary “The Dads” any better. Currently, with such rabid anti-trans rhetoric from right-wing conservatives getting such dangerous traction in the media, it’s refreshing to get this view from some heartfelt acceptance of transgender youth. Fisher’s film is of five fathers of…
