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A proud transgender sex worker since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz, now fifty-nine, shapes a new reality in her “hostel” by housing a new generation of transgender sex workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Queen of Lapa explores the day-to-day lives, rivalries, and quests for love of sex workers, as Muniz’s guides them in a city full of hostility towards its LGBTQ community.
Directors: Theodore Collatos, Carolina Monnerat
Subtitled in English
Presented in collaboration with Ithaca Virtual Summer of Pride 2020
REVIEW
“A brilliant, tender and gracious exploration of what it means to be trans, a sex worker, and liminal in today’s Brazil.”
–Katya Kazbek, SUPAMODU