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The New York Times has a report on a protest yesterday outside Tribeca Cinemas in response to the upcoming festival’s inclusion of gay Dallas filmmaker Israel Luna’s “Ticked Off Trannies with Knives.” Read it by going here.
Protest outside Tribeca Cinemas in NYC targets 'Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives'
Have they actually watched the movie?
Lil’Carl that does present a problem for most transgender people myself included.
First there the name which is a pejorative as defined by GLAAD
Defamatory Language
https://www.glaad.org/mediaguide
“fag,” “faggot,” “dyke,” “homo,” “sodomite,” “she-male,” “he-she,” “it,” “tranny” and similar
epithets
The criteria for using these derogatory terms should be the same as those applied to vulgar
epithets used to target other groups: they should not be used except in a direct quote that reveals the
bias of the person quoted. So that such words are not given credibility in the media, it is preferred
that reporters say, “The person used a derogatory word for a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender
person.”
Secondly I abhor the notion that violence should be considered a acceptable means of obtaining a mutually equitable solution for the perpetrator or victim. It never has and never will.
Thirdly I will never under my own volition watch a comedy that graphically depicts violence against LGBT people. Not against gay people. No against Lesbians. Not against Bisexual people and certainly not against drag performers, Intesexed, queer, questioning or transgender people.
No I have not seen the movie despite personal invitations from Israel Luna to do so. I did watch the trailer up untill the point when a man was about to beat his victim from the POV of the victim. That was too close to memories of a actual real life hate crime committed against me. I
What is ironic is that happened before transgender people became socially aware and the perpetrator yelled homophobic pejoratives at me as he struck me.