Recently in Intersex Issues Category
An award-winning foreign film opening Friday in New York tells the story of 15-year-old Alex, brought up as a girl but born with male and female genitalia, who is starting to believe she might be a boy. Another youth, Alvaro, is suffering gender identity angst of his own, and their relationship forces the issue of Alex's identity and sexuality.XXY's director, Lucía Puenzo, explains what drew her to the material:
I was especially interested in the dilemma of inevitable choice -- not only having to choose between being a man or a woman, but also having to choose between that binary decision or intersex as an identity and not as a place of mere passage.
Puenzo adds:
When I began to write XXY I was surprised to see there are almost no stories on this subject, there's a strange cultural silence over it. If the subject is explored, it's in the language of testimony, of medical diagnosis, but with almost no fictions, as if the subject would be a taboo for any kind of poetry and fiction around it, as it was in ancient times.
After New York, the film will visit Boston (May 21), Portland (May 30), San Francisco (Aug 1), Berkeley (Aug 1), DC (Aug 15) and LA (Aug 15). Groups of 10 or more may receive a reduced rate for the NY screening by contacting Michelle at michelle@filmmovement.com.
As Hollywood and the rest of the film world prepare to descend on Park City and the Queer Lounge, Sundance won't be the only game in town. Competing Slamdance also features a slate of films that are LGBT-inclusive or made by out filmmakers, such as Goodbye Baby (right).
LGBT people will be the subject of several Slamdance docs, including Pageant, which follows five men as they prepare to compete as female impersonators in the 34th Miss Gay America competition. The fest will also screen many LGBT-inclusive shorts, including the Hurricane Katrina-survivor profile Holdout, and the animated film Softly, which uses plastic dolls in place of actors.
We've put together a comprehensive list of LGBT Slamdance films here.
Watch & Win!
GLAAD Entertainment
Our Mission
