To these filmmakers, this stretch of street, called “the stroll” by the transgender women who used to practise sex work for decades on its streets, is a piece of both trans history and New York City history. AdvertisementAddressing what Lovell calls a “50-year gap” in trans history between Stonewall and present day, the documentary is also a revision of the record as it comes to trans people and sex work. We’ve jumped from the days of Stonewall and Sylvia Rivera, but there’s a 50-year gap of trans history and the policing and the impact of that and why we’re so mobilized today. When we were younger, when we were in those situations of homelessness and sex work, that was my family. Jeffrey M Levine/HBO A trans sex worker on the stroll in the 1980s.

Source: Huffington Post June 25, 2023 05:00 UTC