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Changing House (2009)

Genre :

Runtime : 18M

Director : Zavé Martohardjono

Synopsis

Rusty and Chelsea are a transgender lesbian couple who devoted fifteen years to making their Brooklyn home a communal living space for transgender women in need. Their house served a vital and unique community role with its doors always open to newcomers. A crossroads for transgender civil rights organizers, it became home to Stonewall legend Sylvia Rivera in the last years of her life. The couple's dream of a commune quickly met a complicated reality as it became unmanageable. Social workers referred more young transgender women to Rusty and Chelsea than they could accomodate, and eventually, the self-made family lost their "Ma" Sylvia. In this intimate film, Rusty, Chelsea, and long-time resident Cellia commemorate the house's rich activist history, reflect on the joys and challenges of communal living and discuss the continuing struggle of the transgender community with discrimination and homelessness.

Actors

Rusty Mae Moore
Rusty Mae Moore
Herself
Cellia Blass
Cellia Blass
Herself
Chelsea Elizabeth Goodwin
Chelsea Elizabeth Goodwin
Herself
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rivera
Herself

Crews

Zavé Martohardjono
Zavé Martohardjono
Director
Antonio Calderón
Antonio Calderón
Music

Posters and backgrounds

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