Changing house [electronic resource] / director, Z.A. Martohardjono
- Published
- San Francisco, CA : Frameline, 2009.
- Physical Description
- 1 streaming video file (18 min.).
- Additional Creators
- Martohardjono, Z. A. and Frameline (Firm)
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- Series
- Language Note
- This edition in English.
- Summary
- Rusty and Chelsea are a transgender lesbian couple who devoted fifteen years to making their Brooklyn home a communal living space for transgender women in need. Their house served a vital and unique community role with its doors always open to newcomers. A crossroads for transgender civil rights organizers, it became home to Stonewall legend Sylvia Rivera in the last years of her life. The couple's dream of a commune quickly met a complicated reality as it became unmanageable. Social workers referred more young transgender women to Rusty and Chelsea than they could accomodate and eventually, the self-made family lost their "Ma" Sylvia. In this intimate film, Rusty, Chelsea and long-time resident Cellia commemorate the house's rich activist history, reflect on the joys and challenges of communal living and discuss the continuing struggle of the transgender community with discrimination and homelessness.
- Subject(s)
- Note
- Title from original container.
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Other Forms
- Previously released as DVD.
- Reproduction Note
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2013. (LGBT studies in video). Available via World Wide Web.
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