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Wicked Queer 36
US PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
2019
Queen of Lapa
Monday
Jul 27
@
7:00 pm
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Wicked Queer 36
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Queen of Lapa
Monday
,
Jul 27
@
7:00 pm
Wicked Queer 36
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
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.
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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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