Ceyenne Doroshow

The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.

Filmed during a shared harvest dinner with organizers and collaborators, The Whores Feast brings together Ceyenne Doroshow of G.L.I.T.S., Victoria Von Blaque of Trans Equity Consulting, Lisa 张小华 of Red Canary Song, and Amalia Valentine of Decrim NY. Their conversation lingers over nourishment, labor, chosen family, honoring the collective practices of care that sustain communities through ongoing precarity.

Six renowned LGBTQ+ directors explore heroic and heartbreaking stories that define America as a nation. The limited series spans the FBI surveillance of homosexuals during the 1950s Lavender Scare to the “Culture Wars” of the 1990s and beyond, exploring the queer legacy of the Civil Rights movement and the battle over marriage equality.

In the early 1990s, with homophobia and hate crimes on the rise as the AIDS crisis worsens, a serial killer preys upon gay men in New York City, infiltrating queer nightlife to find his victims.