In TheStroll, filmmaker Kristen Lovell traces the importance of NYC’s Meatpacking District for the trans community.
that premiered on MAX this summer, Lovell tells the story of that change. She sketches an arc for the Meatpacking District from being a popular haunt for trans sex workers in Manhattan, up through the glossy Madison Avenue-like tourist attraction it is today. Grounded in her own personal story, the documentary shows how the ousting of Lovell’s community was not a result of passive gentrification, but the product of a concerted, unrelenting, and at times terroristic effort.
It is unknown exactly how long Manhattan’s Meatpacking stroll has been in existence—specific streets and districts that have gained a reputation for sex work and have become known as “strolls” exist across the U.S.—but Lovell’s research has turned up images and newspaper articles referencing it from as early as the 1960s. For a time, working the area was one of the only ways trans women could make money as a result of rampant discrimination.
Charles skitters across the cobblestones in sky-high heels, shoving a microphone into the faces of the working girls, often making light of their situation. While Lovell was “enamored” by the vivid footage, on-screen she chastises Charles’ condescending approach. With clips of the huge empty meat trucks and graffitied load-in docks, it’s these same spaces that” episode Lovell played witness to aired in late 2000.
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