The 6th and last episode of our docu-series We've Been Around, CAMP TRANS, premiered today exclusively on TheAdvocate.com. The series chronicles the lives of a few transgender pioneers in history, often untold. In CAMP TRANS, amid the punk ethics of 1990’s identity politics, trans activists Leslie Feinberg and Riki Anne Wilchins spearhead a movement to protest the trans-exclusionary policy of a women’s music festival.
Check out this beautiful, important film that we executive produced with Rhys Ernst and Jelayne Miles of 11B Production, directed by Elliot Montague, produced by Christine Beebe and written by Rosie Haber.
History of transgender people, like many minority groups, is too often lost or overlooked by the mainstream. Even moments of protest within the LGBT space, like the advent of "Camp Trans," deserve to be remembered, and that can require transgender people telling their own stories, say the creators of the“We’ve Been Around” video series.
We have TWO projects screening at Frameline this year!!! So proud - thank you to Desiree and the whole programming team at Frameline! SPA NIGHT screens at the historic Castro Theatre, and the whole team will be there - come say hi!!! Our docu-series We've Been Around screens together with Rhys Ernst's Emmy nominated series This is Me, will follow an extended Q&A with director Rhys Ernst, producer Christine Beebe and Executive Producers Giulia Caruso and Jelayne Miles.
We are proud to share this series of 5 short docs, directed by the very talented Rhys Ernst and produced by Christine Beebe and us at Nonetheless in collaboration with Focus Features. The shorts celebrate the previously untold stories of pioneers in transgender history: Albert Cashier, Little Axe, Marsha P Johnson & Sylvia Rivera and S.T.A.R., Lou Sullivan, Lucy Hicks Anderson.
The shorts have been released today exclusively on: PEOPLE.COM, EW.COM, ESSENCE.COM and on The Advocate. Watch all the short on The Advocate HERE.
