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We've Been Around
Приєднався 7 чер 2016
Created by Rhys Ernst (co-producer of Amazon's hit Transparent) and produced by Christine Beebe, We've Been Around is series of documentary shorts that chronicle the lives of Lucy Hicks Anderson, STAR, Albert, Little Axe, Lou Sullivan and CAMP TRANS. Each trans trailbalzers in their own right, and each with stories that have, until recently, gone largely unnoticed by mainstream society. From the narrators to the composer to the animator, the series was made with a breadth of talent from the trans community. The team includes Transparent actress Alexandra Billings; writer and filmmaker Susan Stryker; activist Riki Wilchins; and trans historian Monica Roberts.
S.T.A.R.
S.T.A.R. tracks the modern transgender rights movement via the activism of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, participants in the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
We thank “LoveTapesCollective” for letting use their footage, more can be found on their Vimeo account vimeo.com/user42160507.
We thank “LoveTapesCollective” for letting use their footage, more can be found on their Vimeo account vimeo.com/user42160507.
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Відео
Lou Sullivan
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Lou Sullivan recounts the life of Lou Sullivan, a pioneering transgender gay man and AIDS activist.
Albert Cashier
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Albert Cashier illuminates the 19th-century trailblazing of Albert Cashier, a transgender man who fought in the Civil War.
Lucy Hicks Anderson
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Lucy Hicks Anderson recounts the story of Lucy Hicks Anderson, a woman of color who thrived during Prohibition and stood her ground to protect her marriage rights after being exposed as a transgender woman.
Camp Trans
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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 in CAMP TRANS.
0:36 i wish i could find all these pictures, i absolutely love them😭😭🩷
Why is it we never here of the work she did to protect trans young people from medical professionals wanting to put them on hormones and to perform surgeries on them? Trans women in the gay community where not demanding surgery or access to hormones and certainly not [puberty blockers. This is what parents and doctors and johns wanted for them.
Malcolm “Marsha” was not “trans” He says in an interview he is just a gay man who likes to dress in womens clothing. The video is here on YT. It does a disservice to his legacy to act like he wanted to transition etc or was “trans” when he wasn’t. He was a proud effeminate gay dude who liked womens clothes and used them to try to get downlow men.
If you’ve never seen the interview of Silvia at the homeless encampment you should watch it. High on drugs. Living in squalor. Silvia warned of the new movement of pride being all about money and corporations and even mentioned that the gay movement would be taken over by straight people. Now a straight person can put on a they/them pronoun pin and claim queer oppression? Doubt Sylvia would be okay with that! It’s a mockery of actual homosexual oppression!
White middle club, white club
Such a great pioneer! We need more stories like these.
marsha was not at stonewall. lol.. learn your herstory.
Yes she was - you mean Sylvia probably.
She was lolll
I cannot believe this man got exposed by the federal government and STILL won his case because of his awesome friends. Every trans person deserves friends like that.
I'm glad that Michfest NEVER changed their womyn-born-womyn policies. They shouldn't have had to sacrifice their beliefs to satisfy male ego.
I agree.
Me too
I'm sorry you are weak but the world isn't built to accommodate your irrational fear of other women.
Horrific that anyone would try to glorify Camp Trans. It was just a bunch of males and their handmaidens, come to intrude upon and ultimately destroy womyn's land. Classic male terrorism toward the womyn who DARED to say "no" to them.
The fact that she says getting AIDS proves that she is a successful gay man is hilarious. Love it so much.
why waste ur time commenting on a dead mans business
@@user-iz6dj1qz8e I left a comment for the same reason that you did.
He's just like me
Bless you, Lou. Rest in Power, my fellow Trans Brother. ❤
Is it worth mentioning that 5 months after this documentary was made, Dana Rivers, one of the stunning and brave trans-identified MEN, who the women didn't want at their festival, MURDERED two festival-goers Patricia Wright and Charlotte Reed and their son. Basically the exact thing that the women wanted to protect themselves from, happened.
They were in a biker gang together - the murders were unrelated to this event.
@@dakotamadeleinel.1973 no idea if that’s true, but either way it proves their point, doesn’t it. He was a violent man who didn’t belong in a womens festival.
@@dakotamadeleinel.1973additionally the claim that Charlotte Reed and Patricia Wright attended the festival had since been walked back. There's no evidence they ever did so they motorcycle club was their association
@@freedomishealthy1086 “no idea if that’s true, but either way it proves their point, doesn’t it.” That’s just transphobia in a nutshell isn’t it. Literally accusing someone of murder (multiple cases of) and then when you get called out on false information it’s suddenly oh well I don’t know for certain but if it HAD happened I’d be right. Get a life.
@@malcifer9950 erm, no I said I had no idea if the guy's claim was true. The guy who was banned from the women's festival because they were worried he was a violent man and not really a woman "inside", murdered two women. So they were right about him. Yes?
Why didn't New York Judges or the mental health system keep both Marsha and Sylvia off the streets especially once the aids epidemic was known about? Never hear a single "LGBTQ+" activist talk about that or how turning Marsha especially back on the street was like putting a loaded gun out there to kill as many people as you could with. I don't blame Marsha for that I blame the courts and mental health industry!! Just like I blame them for the "LGBTQ+" and creation of it as the worst denial of individual rights and sex crime in United States History! The "LGBTQ+" is glorified human sex trafficking and sex slavery and shame on your group for your participation in it! Your help in it has set everyone back a hundred years and trashed decades of work towards individual rights. No one was leaving you behind you just didn't know about what was happening behind closed doors.
God Serano’s narration style drives me nuts. Thanks for the upload though
The people who were actually there and started the gay liberation movement hate the word “queer” and never used it to describe themselves. As a gay person, I am disgusted every time someone uses this homophobic slur to describe us. “Queer”’is a word that was shouted at gay people when gay people were beaten, raped and murdered. So stop using it. You are stamping on gay people. And it is totally inaccurate. Like I said, no one back then called themselves queer. They still don’t because they know how horrific that word actually is.
Kind of a bad take.
U seem more worked up about some people reclaiming a slur than any kind of historical accuracy of our communities and the complicated ways we define ourselves in the face of abuse and insults... I'm queer and you're misleading and misled :/
Actually queer was made by gay men before the word gay. It became negative over time cause thats what ppl called it b4 gay
Speak for yourself. My mother is a 63 year old lesbian, she loves the word queer to describe herself. You can’t take away a word from people that find liberation within it, just because you don’t. All you can say is that you don’t want to be referred to by it.
The black people or American retook the n-word, used as a slur against them they took it and owned it, the Chicanos once’s a word used to described them, took it as a new form of pride and an identity they still continue to change and be. I can somewhat understand why you would hate using such a word.
A bunch of spiteful men take something away from women . LGB DROP THE T .
You're forgetting that the B does a lot of the enabling of the heterosexual T. There should be a movement for the L, the G, and the exclusively same-sex attracted T.
I don’t understand why people always use the edited clip of Sylvia’s powerful speech. In the original she specifically mentions being raped and talks about the sexual abuse queer prisoners faced, but people always edit that out like it’s something too taboo to talk about
THANK YOU. I hated how they did that, too. Tell EVERY part. It's a part of the history, and people shouldn't shy away from the hard stuff.
That speech is still relevant , after all this time . Never try to " tone down " what Sylvia insisted she had a right to say . She fought for the community that tried to exclude her . Marsha paid an even higher price .
If it's not too taboo to have been done in the first place, it's not too taboo to talk about.
Very beautiful account can't believe the terf bullshit still goes on.. , big up to camp trans ! X
Thank you so much 💜🌈
Lucy was a woman before her time! great to see and learn about her. Thank you.
You bastards broke Mich Fest. Happy now?
Love this; thank you so much!
the problem with this video is that it doesnt mention that jennie only became a man so she could live an independant life
Clearly that isn’t the case. Why fight against wearing a gown when in a hospital if he was fine with being a woman that wouldn’t have been a issue. Why continue using a male name even when everyone knew their were female?
not very cisgender to live as male for 50+ years
This is a great thing for me to be able to share, thank you! ♥️✨
Thank you for the video
There's quite the handful of distortions. But this also leaves out the most horrific part of the story. One of the reasons that Mitchfest couldn't continue is because on of the Camp Trans organisers went on a killing spree and murdered a Mitchfest organiser, her partner and their adopted son. Not content to intrude into a women's festival, Dana Rivers decided to kill women associated with Mitchfest.
And how many real women are being harrassed and assaulted in our own formerly safe spaces now? By biological men? Happy, boys?
They were in a biker gang - unrelated events. Dana killed a friend who was not associated with Michfest.
So… the actual facts are that Dana Rivers, a trans activist who attended Camp Trans once in 2000 - as an attendee, not an organizer - brutally murdered a lesbian couple and their son in Oakland in 2016. The victims never attended MichFest or had any relation to the festival, and the state argued that the motive was related to a women’s motorcycle club. However, Kara Dansky, a prominent TERF blogger covering the trial, speculated that Rivers’ real motive was anger over her victims attending MichFest. This was despite the fact that there was no evidence that the victims had ever attended MichFest, nor evidence that Rivers had any affiliation with Camp Trans after 2000. Kara Dansky herself posted a note on her blog recanting the MichFest connection. It is an extremely sad and upsetting crime, not made any better by people trying to fit it into their own political narrative based on rumor and speculation.
Dana Rivers.
but also leslie feinberg who is a great activist
She went once in 2001, that was it, and we don’t even have definitive proof that she actually went, just word of mouth
I believe she did attend once, and that it was actually 2000. She wrote an article about attending CT on her website (still available on the internet archive) and mentioned that the organizers were from the Chicago/Boston Lesbian Avengers, and that a group of 8 boys/dykes were sold tickets, which would put it solidly in 2000. But I can’t find any evidence that she was ever involved as an organizer, or that she was affiliated with CT after 2000. Nor is there any evidence that Rivers’ victims had attended MichFest themselves, and in fact Kara Danky herself recants it on her website. So it seems the MichFest/Camp Trans connection to the murders is a red herring promoted by some TERF bloggers.
I've lived in Ventura all my life and remember my parents speaking of Lucy Hicks. Dad use to tell us about the time he was playing football one evening in Oxnard when they announced it to the crowd during the game that "Lucy Hicks was a Woman." It was big, headline news. My grandmother remembered seeing Lucy always dressed up to the nines with her pill box hat and gloves walking around town. She donated tons of money to the boy scouts and different charities. It's nice to hear her name again.
Colonizing male pieces of s###. Women have made new spaces and new festivals and you will NEVER be allowed there. EVER.
I love learning about Camp Trans, I just wish I was alive back then so I could experience it in person, because from what I’ve read through TransSisters, it sounds like it would be heaven on earth.
Thanks freedom fighter and liberators of the past for the present we can live today. Thanks Sylvia and Marsha we love you!
What is a woman?
I wish her birthday was known, does anyone know if any public records may exist of her birth and death date?
Wow i love hearong stories like this. They loved her til thry knew she was trans smh
What a wonderful man. I hope I can be like him one day.
I love this, but I wish you didn't say "he was born a girl." He was mislabeled as a girl at birth. Or you could say his assigned sex was female. I also wish that you didn't say "his gender was discovered" by the doctors. The doctors discovered his assigned sex. Thanks for this fabulous series!
Thank you so much for creating this!
Love you and Sylvia so much I will always be Indebted to the both of you thank you happy birthday Marsha. We are your legacy. We are still fighting.
I was born in '95 and it deeply pains me to think that maybe, I would've realized who I was sooner had I seen or been told about Lou as a kid. Thank you so much for sharing his legacy.
Meet Union Infantryman Albert D J Cashier (ep 42)
These videos are so fantastic! I hope to see more someday! Thank you so much for preserving Sylvia & Marsha’s stories in such an amazing format
This is an amazing capture of Lou’s life and work, thank you for this amazing introduction to him. Remembering him and his work is so important 💕🏳️⚧️
This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing Lucy’s story and keeping it alive in such an amazing format! What a valuable resource!
Is that Alexandra Billings narrating??
yes
So much gratitude to our brother Lou for all he did for us.
The clip of Sylvia giving her speech at the rally makes me tear up every time I see it.
100%
maybe you should mention dana rivers and his murder of lesbians >:( THIS is why women need spaces away from fetishy men. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3950804/Shock-beloved-teacher-transgender-activist-61-charged-stabbing-shooting-death-lesbian-couple-teenage-son-setting-home-fire.html
Amazing that the doctor encouraged her to be her true self at that time. Really fantastic.
Early on, many Docs would not accept a MTF Trans woman for surgery if they were in a relationship w/ a Cis woman , or another Trans woman for that matter. They expected a Trans woman to want to date, Cis guys :(