Wicked Queer 36

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Queen of Lapa

Monday

,

Jul 27

@

7:00 pm

With in person.

Wicked Queer 36

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Queen of Lapa

Monday

Jul 27

@

7:00 pm

Xerb.tv

With 
 in person.
Larger-than-life actress, cabaret performer, activist, and proud sex professional since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz - arguably one of Brazil’s most recognizable transgender personalities, shapes a new reality for a new generation of transgender sex workers in her hostel by providing a safe working environment in the dangerous neighborhood of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores the day-to-day lives, quests for love, housemate rivalries in a turbulent political climate under matriarch Muniz’s watchful and guiding eye.
Director
Carolina Monnerat & Theodore Collatos
Year
2019
Run Time
73
min
Country
Brazil
Language
Portuguese
PROGRAM Time
minutes
Content warning:
Larger-than-life actress, cabaret performer, activist, and proud sex professional since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz - arguably one of Brazil’s most recognizable transgender personalities, shapes a new reality for a new generation of transgender sex workers in her hostel by providing a safe working environment in the dangerous neighborhood of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores the day-to-day lives, quests for love, housemate rivalries in a turbulent political climate under matriarch Muniz’s watchful and guiding eye.
This film is presented in
Portuguese
with English subtitles.
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